Sin dólares no hay
ataúdes
Author: Rafael de España
Country: Spain
Publisher: UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Language: Spanish
Pages: 190 pages
ISBN: 9788491805427
Available: June 2019
The production of westerns in Europe was born in Spain
around 1962 as an effortless imitation of Hollywood models. But, following the
success of For a Fistful of Dollars, it was the Italians who completely
remodeled the genre from an iconoclastic perspective that immediately connected
with a young audience that no longer believed in the immaculate cowboys and
their glorious deeds. What offered the almost 600 westerns rolled on the shores
of the Mediterranean between 1964 and 1978? Antiheroes with names as improbable
as Django, Sartana or Sabata; extreme adventures that combined exacerbated
violence with a cynical humor that never clarified who was the good and who was
the bad (although the bankers never belonged to the first group); visual
solutions as baroque and hyperbolic as musical backgrounds ...; and, among the
extras, the only western directed by a woman and the, also unique, kiss in the
mouth between two ferocious gunmen.
Dear Tom,
ReplyDeleteThank you for including my new book in your indispensable blog, which I greatly admire and for that reason I have mentioned it in the online section of the bibliography. Please tell me where can I send you a copy (I'm not sure the publisher has done it).
Saludos,
Rafael
rafaeldeespana@ub.edu
rdeespana@gmail.com