Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads Studies in Relocation, Transition and Appropriation

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Pub. Date: 2017-09-01
Publisher(s): Edinburgh University Press
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Author Biography


Austin Fisher is Senior Lecturer In Film And Television Studies at Bournemouth University.

Table of Contents


List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction
1: The Quiet Man Gets Noisy: Sergio Leone, the Italian Western and Ireland, Christopher Frayling

Section I: Trans-Genre Roots
2: Pietro Germi, Hybridity and the Roots of the Italo-Western, Pasquale Iannone
3: Malaysian Pirates, American Cowboys, and the Marginalised Outlaw: Constructing Other-ed Adventurers in Italian Film, Aliza S. Wong

Section II: Ethnic Identities, Transnational Politics
4: Spectacles of Insurgency: Witnessing the Revolution as Incoherent Text, David Hyman and Patrick Wynne
5: Emancipation all 'Italiana: Giuseppe Colizzi and the Representation of African Americans in Italian Westerns, Lee Broughton
6: Corbucci Unchained: Miike, Tarantino and the Postmodern Discursivity of Exploitation Cinema, Mikel J. Koven

Section III: Asian Crossovers
7: Bounty Hunters, Yakuzas and Ronins: Intercultural Transformations between the Italian Western and the Japanese Swordfight Film in the 1960s, Thomas Klein
8: Spaghetti Westerns and Asian Cinema: Perspectives on Global Cultural Flows, Ivo Ritzer
9: Cowboys and Indians: Transnational Borrowings in the Indian Masala Western, Iain Robert Smith

Section IV: Routes of Relocation, Transition and Appropriation
10: For a Few Comic Strips More: Reinterpreting the Spaghetti Western through the Comic Book, William Grady
11: Transit to East Germany: the Distribution and Reception of Once Upon a Time in the West in the German Democratic Republic, Rosemary Stott
12: Spaghetti Westerns and the 'Afterlife' of a Hollywood Genre, Pete Falconer

Filmography

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