Spaghetti western
vol.4
Author: Matteo Mancini
Country: Italy
Publisher: Ass. Culturale Il
Foglio
Language: Italian
Pages: 720
EAN: 9788876067815
ISBN: 8876067817
Available: Now
Last volume of a real encyclopedia dedicated to
the Italian western and, more generally, to the Italian genre cinema. Matteo
Mancini starts from the nascent New Hollywood, from Indian revisionism and from
the deconstruction of the myth operated by directors such as Sam Peckinpah, to
show the development of the genre in Italy,
but also in the world, from America
to Turkey, passing through Mexico and Brazil . From the years of the
proliferation of the western joke, son of the successes of smiles & punches
brought to the top of the box office charts from Trinità, to the attempts of
Sergio Leone, now in the guise of producer, to close with the myth in a
bittersweet perspective projected to the new that advances with "My name
is Nobody" and "A genius, two cronies, a chicken". A loss of
identity that leads first to the demented then to attempts at contamination
with the martial arts cinema from Hong Kong to
find a new biting dimension with the twilight western. Hence the general crisis
of the 1980s.
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