Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads : : Studies in Relocation, Transition and Appropriation / / Austin Fisher.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Fisher, Austin,
• MitwirkendeR: Broughton, Lee,; Falconer, Pete,; Fisher, Austin,; Frayling, Christopher,; Grady, William,; Hyman, David,; Iannone, Pasquale,; Koven, Mikel J.,; Mera, Iain Robert Smith,; Ritzer, Ivo,; Stott, Rosemary,; Wong, Aliza S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

A reappraisal of the cultural-political strands that fed into, and emanate from, the Spaghetti WesternWhat 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. Contributors includeLee BroughtonPete FalconerChristopher FraylingWilliam GradyDavid HymanPasquale IannoneThomas KleinMikel J. KovenIvo RitzerIain Robert SmithRosemary StottAliza S. WongPatrick Wynne

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Quiet Man Gets Noisy: Sergio Leone, the Italian Western and Ireland -- Part I Trans-genre Roots -- Chapter 2 Pietro Germi, Hybridity and the Roots of the Italo-Western -- Chapter 3 Malaysian Pirates, American Cowboys and the Marginalised Outlaw: Constructing Other-ed Adventurers in Italian Film -- Part II Ethnic Identities, Transnational Politics -- Chapter 4 Spectacles of Insurgency: Witnessing the Revolution as Incoherent Text -- Chapter 5 Emancipation all’italiana: Giuseppe Colizzi and the Representation of African Americans in Italian Westerns -- Chapter 6 Corbucci Unchained: Miike, Tarantino and the Postmodern Discursivity of Exploitation Cinema -- Part III Asian Crossovers -- Chapter 7 Bounty Hunters, Yakuzas and Rōnins: Intercultural Transformations between the Italian Western and the Japanese Swordfight Film in the 1960s -- Chapter 8 Spaghetti Westerns and Asian Cinema: Perspectives on Global Cultural Flows -- Chapter 9 Cowboys and Indians: Transnational Borrowings in the Indian Masala Western -- Part IV Routes of Relocation, Transition and Appropriation -- Chapter 10 For a Few Comic Strips More: Reinterpreting the Spaghetti Western through the Comic Book -- Chapter 11 Transit to East Germany: The Distribution and Reception of Once Upon a Time in the West in the German Democratic Republic -- Chapter 12 Spaghetti Westerns and the ‘Afterlife’ of a Hollywood Genre -- Filmography -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index