Overview

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 unnoticed. Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western fills this gap as the first in-depth analysis of militant political trends in the Italian Western. Providing a detailed, historically-grounded examination of the films of Damiano Damiani, Sergio Sollima and Sergio Corbucci, Austin Fisher reveals how and why these filmmakers responded to international and national events by inscribing Italian Far Left revolutionary doctrine, and a legitimacy of violence, into the genre. 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.

Full Product Details

9781848855786

Table of Contents

Reviews

'This is a major re-appraisal of a neglected set of 1960s films, films which become more and more interesting with the passing of the years.' - Christopher Frayling; 'Austin Fisher's grasp of the political complexion of this moment (on both sides of the Atlantic) is subtle and nuanced, while his close textual analyses are lucid and insightful.' - Barry Langford

Author Information

Austin Fisher is Lecturer in Media Arts at the University of Bedfordshire. Austin is the 'Spaghetti Westerns' editor for the Directory of World Cinema: Italy, has published articles in scholarly journals such as The Italianist and Scope and writes a blog around his research interest at www.austinfisher.me.uk.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available