Western All'Italiana Volume 1

Full title: Western All'Italiana - Volume 1 (The Specialists)

Author: Antonio Bruschini, Antonio Tentori. Foreword by Franco Nero
Format: Hardcover, Black and White / Color.
Language: English and Italian
Pages: 144
ISBN: 8882750345
Publisher: Glittering Images
Publication date: 1998
Series: -

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From the same author: Western All'Italiana Volume 3, Western All'Italiana Volume 2

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Review

In contrast to the other two books in this series, the book is divided into chapters each devoted to an individual director, starting with Sergio Leone and working through the key directors. The text of the chapter largely gives a narrative overview of that director's involvement in the Spaghetti Western, and discusses the films they made in chronological order. The book is well illustrated throughout with posters and pictures from the films. The need to have both Italian and English text means that sometimes the pictures end up separated from the films they are discussing, since the pictures are spaced over the whole chapter while the text (in a single language) only takes half a chapter.

The slight criticism of this book (and the whole series) is that it is often overly positive about Spaghetti Westerns that are usually agreed to be lower quality (for example Enzo G. Castellari's comedy output). This means it isn't necessarily helpful as a guide to what to see next.

by Commissioner

Description:

The history of the Italian Western in a collection of full color illustrated books from Glittering Images. This, the first volume is devoted to the masters of the genera: Sergio Leone, Sergio Corbucci, Sergio Sollima, Duccio Tessari, Tonino Valerii, Giulio Petroni, Enzo G. Castellari, Giuseppe Colizzi, Franco Giraldi.

About the author

Antonio Bruschini was a film critic, historian and scholar. His many other books included Horror all’Italiana 1957-1979 for Glittering Press in 1996 followed in 1997 with Operation Fear. The Directors Guide of Italian Gothic and Violent City - Italian Crime Film as well as the three volume set of Western all'italiana, also for Glittering Images and many more. He was a professor of Film Screenplay Independent Film at the National School of Florence in 2000-2007 and died in 2011.

Antonio Tenrori is a writer of many books on Italian genre cinema. He has focused mainly on horror but has also written on Crime films, Westerns, Gialli and erotica.