Western All'Italiana Volume 2

Full title: Western All'Italiana - Volume 2 (The Wild, The Sadist and the Outsiders)

Author: Antonio Bruschini & Federico de Zigno. Forewords by Giulio Questi and Gianni Garko.
Format: Hardcover, Black and White / Color.
Language: English and Italian
Pages: 176
ISBN: 8882750442
Publisher: Glittering Images
Publication date: 2001
Series: -

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From the same author: Western All'Italiana Volume 3, Western All'Italiana Volume 1

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Review

The format of the second book deviates significantly from the first: instead of the continuous-text chapters devoted to the each director, the book is now substantially a list of films in chronological order, giving cast and crew details followed by a short plot summary and review. The length of the reviews varies from a couple of paragraphs to a whole page (for the more important films). The theme of the book is very much in the title "The Wild, The Sadist and the Outsiders", and therefore the reviews are usually keen to point out the various depravities which take place in the films such as gory killings, rapes, tortures, and so forth. This focus may not be to everyone's taste, but a good selection of films are covered, and not all just for the violence.

Like the others in the series, the book has a good selection of pictures, mostly from posters. Unlike the first book the pictures are not usually captioned, which occassionally makes it hard to identify those pictures that come from stills of the film. Towards the middle of the book the pictures get significantly ahead of the text, which makes it slightly inconvenient to flick between the film being discussed and the associated pictures. There are a few mistakes in the English text, but it is generally readable. For the films I've seen, the plot descriptions are accurate. As with the other books in the series, the authors are probably less critical than they should be about some of the lesser films in the genre.

by Commissioner

Description:

The second book features the most incredible, sadistic, delirious and unusual Italian western movies: Sentenza di morte, Tempo di massacro, Texas addio, Yankee, The bounty killer, Django il bastardo, Quien sabe?, Requiescant, Se sei vivo spara, Il tempo degli avvoltoi, The Belle Star story, E Dio disse a Caino, Bad Man's River, Matalo!, Blindman, L'odio è il mio Dio, I quattro dell'Apocalisse... as well as a Bibliography and filmography.

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.

Federico De Zigno has wriiten a number of books for Glittering Images including Diva Mania, Diva Obsexion and Diva Satanica.