Western All'Italiana Volume 3

Full title: Western All'Italiana Volume 3 (100 more must-see movies)

Author: Antonio Bruschini, Federico De Zigno. Foreword by Giuliano Gemma
Format: Hardcover, Black and White / Color.
Language: English and Italian
Pages: 128
ISBN: 8882750515
Publisher: Glittering Images
Publication date: 2006
Series: -

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From the same author: Western All'Italiana Volume 2, Western All'Italiana Volume 1

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Review

This third volume in the series basically covers the remaining key films missing after the first two in chronological order, giving cast and crew information followed by a review for each film. In some senses there's no real theme: the important directors were covered in volume 1, volume 2 looked at the excesses of the genre, and volume 3 is really the remainder. For the Giuliano Gemma fan there are a reasonable amount of his films listed (hence him writing the foreword I suppose!), possibly because a lot of them were not made by key directors (hence excluded from volume 1), not especially violent (hence excluded from volume 2), but pretty good quality and thus worthy of note. Anthony Steffen's catalogue also gets good coverage, as well as some of the better early Spaghetti Westerns.

As with the other books, there are a good selection of illustrative posters, and both English and Italian text. As an additional feature, there is a (full?) listing of most spaghetti westerns by year with a short amount of cast and crew information, a 1-5 star rating (where seen), and a reference to the Western All'Italiana book the film is discussed in. I feel the star ratings are slightly more critical of the films than the text is at times, so might be a good place to pick what to watch from. Like the other two, this is a quality product, but it suffers slightly from the "odds and ends" feel of gathering up a list of remaining spaghetti westerns.

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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.