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 answe...

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