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What links Italian neorealism to Django Unchained, French comic books to Third-World insurgency, and Bollywood song-and-dance to Eastern Bloc film distribution? As this volume illustrates, the answers lie in the Spaghetti Western genre.
As the reference points of American popular culture became ever more prominent in post-war Europe, the hundreds of films that make up the Italian (or 'Spaghetti') Western documented profound shifts in their home country's cultural outlook, while at the same time denying specifically national discourses. An object of fascination and great affection for fans, filmmakers and academics alike, the Western all¹italiana arose from a diverse confluence of cultural strands, and would become a pivotal moment in cinematic history.
Reappraising a diverse selection of films, from the internationally famed works of Sergio Leone to the cult cachet of Sergio Corbucci and the more obscure outputs of such directors as Giuseppe Colizzi and Ferdinando Baldi, this comprehensive study brings together leading international scholars in a variety of disciplines to both revisit the genre's cultural significance and consider its on-going influence on international film industries.
Contents
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1: The Quiet Man Gets Noisy: Sergio Leone, the Italian Western and Ireland, Christopher Frayling; Section I: Trans-Genre Roots; 2: Pietro Germi, Hybridity and the Roots of the Italo-Western, Pasquale Iannone ; 3: Malaysian Pirates, American Cowboys, and the Marginalised Outlaw: Constructing Other-ed Adventurers in Italian Film, Aliza S. Wong; Section II: Ethnic Identities, Transnational Politics; 4: Spectacles of Insurgency: Witnessing the Revolution as Incoherent Text, David Hyman and Patrick Wynne; 5: Emancipation all'Italiana: Giuseppe Colizzi and the Representation of African Americans in Italian Westerns, Lee Broughton; 6: Corbucci Unchained: Miike, Tarantino and the Postmodern Discursivity of Exploitation Cinema, Mikel J. Koven; Section III: Asian Crossovers; 7: Bounty Hunters, Yakuzas and Rōnins: Intercultural Transformations between the Italian Western and the Japanese Swordfight Film in the 1960s, Thomas Klein; 8: Spaghetti Westerns and Asian Cinema: Perspectives on Global Cultural Flows, Ivo Ritzer; 9: Cowboys and Indians: Transnational Borrowings in the Indian Masala Western, Iain Robert Smith; Section IV: Routes of Relocation, Transition and Appropriation; 10: For a Few Comic Strips More: Reinterpreting the Spaghetti Western through the Comic Book, William Grady; 11: Transit to East Germany: the Distribution and Reception of Once Upon a Time in the West in the German Democratic Republic, Rosemary Stott; 12: Spaghetti Westerns and the 'Afterlife' of a Hollywood Genre, Pete Falconer; Filmography
