Spaghetti Westerns - Cowboys and Europeans

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Full title: Spaghetti Westerns - Cowboys and Europeans. From Karl May to Sergio Leone

  • Author: Christopher Frayling
  • Format: ?
  • Language: English
  • Pages: 320
  • ISBN: 1845112075
  • Publisher: I.B. Tauris
  • Publication date: 1981 (first edition), re-Issued in 1998 & 2006
  • Series / edition: Cinema and Society (Reprint)
Spaghetti Westerns - Cowboys and Europeans by Christopher Frayling

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From Amazon: Spaghetti Westerns is the major critical exploration of the European Western. Christopher Frayling approaches the Westerns produced at Cinecitta Studios in Rome from a variety of perspectives, placing them in the Italian, social, political, industrial and cinematic contexts from which they evolved. Over 400 Spaghetti Westerns were produced during their 1960s peak period; Frayling deals with the most interesting examples, giving special attention to the films of Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood.

About the author

Sir Christopher Frayling is perhaps the most wide-ranging cultural historian of our times: the author of numerous publications on subjects ranging from vampires to Westerns; the writer and presenter of successful television series, whether on advertising, the Middle Ages or Tutankhamun. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and was Rector of the Royal College of Art, London, from 1996 to 2009, where he remains Professor Emeritus of Cultural History. His many public appointments have included Chairman of Arts Council England; Chairman of the Design Council; and the longest-serving Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

He is probably best known for his early championing of Italian Westerns as worthy of academic study and often attends events on this genre as a keynote speaker.

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