Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads
Studies in Relocation, Transition and Appropriation
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Edition: 1
Edited By: Austin Fisher
Publication Date: April 13, 2016
Dimensions: 234 x 156 mm
Extent: 312 pages
ISBN: 9780748695454
Price: £75.00
A reappraisal of the cultural-political strands that fed
into, and emanate from, the Spaghetti Western
What links Italian neorealism to Django Unchained, French
comic books to Third-World insurgency, and Bollywood song-and-dance to Eastern
Bloc film distribution? As this volume illustrates, the answers lie in the
Spaghetti Western genre.
As the reference points of American popular culture
became ever more prominent in post-war Europe, the hundreds of films that make
up the Italian (or ‘Spaghetti’) Western documented profound shifts in their
home country’s cultural outlook, while at the same time denying specifically
national discourses. An object of fascination and great affection for fans,
filmmakers and academics alike, the Western all¹italiana arose from a diverse
confluence of cultural strands, and would become a pivotal moment in cinematic
history.
Reappraising a diverse selection of films, from the
internationally famed works of Sergio Leone to the cult cachet of Sergio
Corbucci and the more obscure outputs of such directors as Giuseppe Colizzi and
Ferdinando Baldi, this comprehensive study brings together leading
international scholars in a variety of disciplines to both revisit the genre’s
cultural significance and consider its on-going influence on international film
industries.
Contributors include:
Lee Broughton, Pete Falconer, Christopher Frayling,
William Grady, David Hyman, Pasquale Iannone, Thomas Klein, Mikel J. Koven, Ivo
Ritzer, Iain Robert Smith, Rosemary Stott, Aliza S. Wong, Patrick Wynne
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