Spaghetti western. 4:
Il crepuscolo e la notte del
genere (anni '72 a oggi)
Author: Matteo Mancini
Country: Italy
Publisher: Ass. Culturale Il
Foglio
Language: Italian
Pages: 720
ISBN9788876067815
Available: November 26, 2019
The 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 comedy western, son of the successes of smiles &
punches brought to the top of the box office charts from Trinity, 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". 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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