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Fisher Austin |
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Titolo |
Radical frontiers in the spaghetti western : politics, violence and popular Italian cinema / / Austin Fisher |
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London [England] : , : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, , 2011 |
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[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2019 |
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ISBN |
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0-7556-9476-7 |
1-283-38071-4 |
9786613380715 |
0-85772-046-5 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (315 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Motion pictures - Italy |
Politics in motion pictures |
Spaghetti Westerns - History and criticism |
Film: styles & genres |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Royal Holloway, University of London, 2009. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-288) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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. |
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