Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone / Edition 2

by Christopher Frayling

Overview

"Christopher Frayling's Spaghetti Westerns is a particularly entertaining and enjoyably readable book. Frayling is obviously both a film buff and film critic, so he is able to appreciate Spaghetti Westerns as popular entertainments, to celebrate their cinematic stylishness, while simultaneously knowledgeably exploring their many social and political dimensions." - Gary Crowdus, Cineaste

"Unquestionably the single best book written about the Western." - Journal of Popular Film and Television

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781845112073
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/27/2006
Series:	Cinema and Society
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	328
Sales rank:	1,064,571
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Christopher Frayling is Rector of the Royal College of Art and Professor of Cultural History there. His books include Sergio Leone: Something to Do With Death, Clint Eastwood and a BFI monograph on Things to Come. He is Chairman of the Arts Council, England.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface * Acknowledgments * Preface * Prologue: The European Western: Sutter and His Gold * Part I: The Context * Spaghettis and Society * The Studio * Karl May and the Noble Savage * Part II: The Critics * The 'Cultural Roots' Controversy* Part III: The Films * Sergio Leone's Films—The sources * The 'Dollars' Trilogy—Decors and Details * The 'Dollars' Trilogy—Analysis * Once Upon a Time in the West * Spaghettis and Politics * Epilogue: Spaghettis in the Looking-Glass * Appendix 1: Critical Filmography * Appendix 2: The Cut Sequences in Leone's Westerns * Appendix 3: The Impact of Spaghettis on the American Western * Appendix 4: Box Office Receipts of A Fistful of Dollars in Italy * Appendix 5: Umberto Eco's Model of the Superman Formula * Select Bibliography * Index of Names * Index of Film Titles