Offering fresh perspectives across the Western genre while recasting the Spaghetti's influential position in exploitation cinema, Fisher brings the genre more firmly into the tradition of European political filmmaking
'Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western' examines the films of Damiano Damiani, Sergio Sollima and Sergio Corbucci, revealing how and why these filmmakers responded to international and national events by inscribing Italian far left revolutionary doctrine into the genre.
This is an analysis of miltant political trends in the the 1960s Italian -- "Spaghetti" -- Westerns. It examines the films of Damiano Damiani, Sergio Sollima and Sergio Corbucci, and shows how and why these filmmakers responded to international and national events by inscribing …
Though 1960s European cinema frequently reflected the shifting ideological tides which now characterise the era in the popular imagination, the complex and extensive relationship of the Italian - or 'Spaghetti' - Western to these political ferments has gone almost entirely unnot…
Analysis the militant political trends in the Italian western, and provides a detailed, historically-grounded examination of the films of Damiano Damiani, Sergio Sollima and Sergio Corbucci