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Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western: Politics, Violence and Popular Italian Cinema

Austin Fisher

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Description:Ever more popular in the age of DVDs, eBay and online fandom, the Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s have undergone a mainstream renaissance which has nevertheless left their intimate relationship to the troubled politics of 1960s Italy unexamined. Radical Frontiers reappraises the genre in relation to the revolutionary New Left and the events of 1968 to uncover the complexities of a cinematic milieu too often dismissed as formulaic and homogeneous. _x000D_Establishing the backdrop of post-war Italy in which the Roman studio system actively blended Italian and American culture, Austin Fisher looks in detail at the works of Damiano Damiani, Sergio Sollima, Sergio Corbucci, Giulio Questi and Giulio Petroni and how these directors reformatted the Hollywood Western to yield new resonance for militant constituencies and radical groups. Radical Frontiers identifies the main variants of these militant Westerns, which brazenly endorsed violent peasant insurrection in the OCyMexicoOCO of the popular imagination, turning the camera on the hitherto heroic colonialists of the West and exposing the brutal mechanisms of a society infested with latent fascism. The ways in which the filmsOCO artistic failures reflect the ideological confusions of the radical groups is examined and the genreOCOs legacy is reappraised, as the revolutionary energy of ItalyOCOs New Left becomes subsumed amidst the conflicting agendas of New Hollywood, blaxploitation and the OCygrindhouseOCO revival of Tarantino, Rodriguez and Raimi._x000D_Reclaiming the Spaghetti Western from the domain of the merely cool and repositioning it within the spectrum of late-1960s radical cinema, Radical Frontiers analyses the genreOCOs narrative and cinematographic inscriptions in their political context to uncover Far Left doctrines in these tales of outlaws and sheriffs, banditry and redemptive violence."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western: Politics, Violence and Popular Italian Cinema. To get started finding Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western: Politics, Violence and Popular Italian Cinema, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 315

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Release: 2014

ISBN: 0857720465

Description: Ever more popular in the age of DVDs, eBay and online fandom, the Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s have undergone a mainstream renaissance which has nevertheless left their intimate relationship to the troubled politics of 1960s Italy unexamined. Radical Frontiers reappraises the genre in relation to the revolutionary New Left and the events of 1968 to uncover the complexities of a cinematic milieu too often dismissed as formulaic and homogeneous. _x000D_Establishing the backdrop of post-war Italy in which the Roman studio system actively blended Italian and American culture, Austin Fisher looks in detail at the works of Damiano Damiani, Sergio Sollima, Sergio Corbucci, Giulio Questi and Giulio Petroni and how these directors reformatted the Hollywood Western to yield new resonance for militant constituencies and radical groups. Radical Frontiers identifies the main variants of these militant Westerns, which brazenly endorsed violent peasant insurrection in the OCyMexicoOCO of the popular imagination, turning the camera on the hitherto heroic colonialists of the West and exposing the brutal mechanisms of a society infested with latent fascism. The ways in which the filmsOCO artistic failures reflect the ideological confusions of the radical groups is examined and the genreOCOs legacy is reappraised, as the revolutionary energy of ItalyOCOs New Left becomes subsumed amidst the conflicting agendas of New Hollywood, blaxploitation and the OCygrindhouseOCO revival of Tarantino, Rodriguez and Raimi._x000D_Reclaiming the Spaghetti Western from the domain of the merely cool and repositioning it within the spectrum of late-1960s radical cinema, Radical Frontiers analyses the genreOCOs narrative and cinematographic inscriptions in their political context to uncover Far Left doctrines in these tales of outlaws and sheriffs, banditry and redemptive violence."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western: Politics, Violence and Popular Italian Cinema. To get started finding Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western: Politics, Violence and Popular Italian Cinema, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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