Westerns spaghettis & histoire
Country: France
Publisher: Editions Harmattan
Author: Meddy Ligner
Language: French
Pages: 262
ISBN: 978-2-336-43818-4
Available: May 2, 2024
A historical genre in essence, the spaghetti western
weaves numerous links with the past. Certainly, it is influenced by the major
stages of North American construction: conquest of the West, Civil War and
Mexican Revolution. But unlike its American father (J-M Sabatier affirmed that
the Italian western was the only patricidal genre in cinema), the all'italiana
western draws on other sources: Antiquity and the Middle Ages (watching
spaghetti westerns , is to admire the exploits of Django or the Man without a
Name, mixed with those of Ulysses, Oedipus or the knights) but also the Second
World War, the Napoleonic epic, the murder of JFK, the works of Shakespeare or
19th century adventure novels. This aspect constitutes the immeasurable
originality of the spaghetti western.
About the author
Meddy Ligner is the author of two novels (Les Roses de
Karakorum and Semper Lupa by Armada), a collection of short stories (Un
Dimanche après-midi sur la Lune by Rivière blanche) and two documentaries
(Rocky & the myths of boxing by Mareuil and the Thirteen Great Curses of
Sport at Amphora). He has also edited several anthologies and files,
particularly on the weird western.
No comments:
Post a Comment