Spaghetti Westerns--the Good, the Bad and the Violent - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spaghetti Westerns--the Good, the Bad and the Violent write by Thomas Weisser. This book was released on 2014-03-11. Spaghetti Westerns--the Good, the Bad and the Violent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spaghetti Westerns--mostly produced in Italy or by Italians but made throughout Europe--were bleaker, rougher, grittier imitations of Hollywood Westerns, focusing on heroes only slightly less evil than the villains. After a main filmography covering 558 Spaghetti Westerns, another section provides filmographies of personnel--actors and actresses, directors, musical composers, scriptwriters, cinematographers. Appendices provide lists of the popular Django films and the Sartana films, a listing of U.S.-made Spaghetti Western lookalikes, top ten and twenty lists and a list of the genre's worst.
Spaghetti Westerns: The Good, the Bad and the Violent
Spaghetti Westerns: The Good, the Bad and the Violent - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spaghetti Westerns: The Good, the Bad and the Violent write by Thomas Weisser. This book was released on . Spaghetti Westerns: The Good, the Bad and the Violent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Spaghetti Western
The Spaghetti Western - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Spaghetti Western write by Bert Fridlund. This book was released on 2014-12-24. The Spaghetti Western available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 1960s and 1970s were the heyday of spaghetti westerns--low-budget films about the early American West mostly filmed in Italy. Though sometimes derided as excessively violent imitations of American-made westerns, they attracted a substantial following that has endured. With its classic elements of gunfights, gambling, heroes, sidekicks, love, and death, the genre is now perceived by critics as an intriguing object of study. This book analyzes the construction of the stories presented in spaghetti westerns. It examines the content of the Italian western using concepts and constructs borrowed from scholars studying "pre-industrial" narratives. Plot, the constellation of characters, their relationship to each other, and their motives are studied. Films examined in detail include the seminal A Fistful of Dollars as well as Django, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. There is also a discussion of the early spaghetti westerns. The study then probes the elements of bounty hunters, the deprived hero, partnerships, betrayal, and comedy. An appendix details the top grossing Italian westerns between 1964 and 1975, including title, director, lead actor and intake. A second appendix provides a list of films quoted by Italian title and then by English title.
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ennio Morricone write by Alessandro De Rosa. This book was released on 2019-02-01. Ennio Morricone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Master composer Ennio Morricone's scores go hand-in-hand with the idea of the Western film. Often considered the world's greatest living film composer, and most widely known for his innovative scores to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and the other Sergio Leone's movies, The Mission, Cinema Paradiso and more recently, The Hateful Eight, Morricone has spent the past 60 years reinventing the sound of cinema. In Ennio Morricone: In His Own Words, composers Ennio Morricone and Alessandro De Rosa present a years-long discussion of life, music, and the marvelous and unpredictable ways that the two come into contact with and influence each other. The result is what Morricone himself defines: "beyond a shadow of a doubt the best book ever written about me, the most authentic, the most detailed and well curated. The truest." Opening for the first time the door of his creative laboratory, Morricone offers an exhaustive and rich account of his life, from his early years of study to genre-defining collaborations with the most important Italian and international directors, including Leone, Bertolucci, Pasolini, Argento, Tornatore, Malick, Carpenter, Stone, Nichols, De Palma, Beatty, Levinson, Almodóvar, Polanski and Tarantino. In the process, Morricone unveils the curious relationship that links music and images in cinema, as well as the creative urgency at the foundation of his experimentations with "absolute music". Throughout these conversations with De Rosa, Morricone dispenses invaluable insights not only on composing but also on the broader process of adaptation and what it means to be human. As he reminds us, "Coming into contact with memories doesn't only entail the melancholy of something that slips away with time, but also looking forward, understanding who I am now. And who knows what else may still happen."
Any Gun Can Play
Any Gun Can Play - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Any Gun Can Play write by Kevin Grant. This book was released on 2021-12-02. Any Gun Can Play available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. THE EURO-WESTERN BEYOND LEONE The full, vibrant history of the Euro-Western, offering everything any fan of Euro-Westerns could ever want to know. The success of Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy in the 60s sparked a gold rush, as a legion of European film-makers, many of them sharing the get-rich-quick mentality of Leone's mercenary anti-heroes followed the master's lead to create some of the wildest Westerns ever made. Cynical and stylish, bloody and baroque, Euro-Westerns replaced straight-shooting sheriffs and courageous cowboys with amoral adventurers, whose murderous methods would shock the heroes of Hollywood Westerns. Any Gun Can Play explores the films' wider reaches, their recurrent themes, characters, quirks and motifs. It examines the American models and explores the mechanics of the Italian film industry. - Features the genre's leading lights, including Franco Nero, Giuliano Gemma and Gianni Garko, writer Sergio Donati, and directors Sergio Sollima and Giuliano Carnimeo - Foreword by Euro-Western legend Franco Nero This stunningly illustrated reference guide demonstrates why these films became box-office sensations around the world, and their influence can still be felt today.
