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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791984603321

Autore

Fisher Austin

Titolo

Radical frontiers in the spaghetti western : politics, violence and popular Italian cinema / / Austin Fisher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London [England] : , : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, , 2011

[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2019

ISBN

0-7556-9476-7

1-283-38071-4

9786613380715

0-85772-046-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 p.)

Disciplina

791.43658780945

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Italy

Politics in motion pictures

Spaghetti Westerns - History and criticism

Film: styles & genres

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Royal Holloway, University of London, 2009.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-288) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The backdrop. Imagining America : US influence and American mythology in post-war Italy -- A Marxist's gotta do what a Marxist's gotta do : national identity and political violence on the Italian frontier -- The films. Go west, comrade! defining the absolute enemy -- Violent Mexico : 'crossing the border' into armed insurgency -- The legacy. Revolutionising violence : radical translation and postmodern residues in US cinema -- Along the radical spectrum -- Appendices. A. Highest grossing Italian westerns, 1962-1980 (domestic prima visione box-office returns) -- B. Italian western releases in Italy, 1962-1980 -- C. Italian western releases in the USA, 1962-1980 -- D. Corpus in US and UK reviews of fifty Italian westerns, 1965-1977.

Sommario/riassunto

Though 1960s European cinema frequently reflected the shifting ideological tides which now characterise the era in the popular imagination, the complex and extensive relationship of the Italian - or 'Spaghetti' - Western to these political ferments has gone almost



entirely unnoticed. Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western fills this gap as the first in-depth analysis of militant political trends in the Italian Western. Providing a detailed, historically-grounded examination of the films of Damiano Damiani, Sergio Sollima and Sergio Corbucci, Austin Fisher reveals how and why these filmmake.