For a Few Dollars More: Where Spain staged the
spaghetti western
Author: Terence Denman
Country: England
Publisher: Independently published
Language: English
Pages: 122
File size: 757 KB
Simultaneous device usage: Unlimited
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Screen Reader: Supported
Enhanced typesetting: Enabled
X-Ray: Not Enabled
Word Wise: Enabled
Sticky notes: On Kindle Scribe
Released: June 3, 2024
In the 1960s and 1970s, Almería, the poorest and most
isolated part of Spain, gave its stunning landscape, historic architecture and
sun-drenched climate to the spaghetti western. Over 150 westerns filmed wholly
or partly there, including most of the acknowledged masterpieces of the genre,
such as Sergio Leone's 'Dollars Trilogy'. Almería, for a glorious few years,
became the 'Spanish Hollywood'. Cinema had a major impact on the area's economy
and social life. This book, drawing largely on Spanish and Italian sources,
looks in detail at the relationship between Almería and the western: from The
Savage Guns of 1961, when a British director rode the cowboys into town, to
Silver Saddle of 1977, when an Italian director rode them into the sunset. This
book is a major revision and expansion of the author's 2019 publication
Fistfuls of Dollars in Almeria.
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