Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

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Christopher Fraylings Spaghetti Westerns is a particularly entertaining and enjoyably readable book. Frayling is obviously both a film buff and film critic, so he is able to appreciate Spaghetti Westerns as popular entertainments, to celebrate their cinematic stylishness, while simultaneously knowledgeably exploring their many social and political dimensions. Gary Crowdus, Cineaste Unquestionably the single best book written about the Western. Journal of Popular Film and Television

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'The book is a major contribution to the understanding of film in society, and is as much fun as the movies it discusses' - Robert Reiner, New Society The Professor of Cultural History at the Royal College of Art has taken his chair in both hands. - Robert Hewison, Times Literary Supplement. 'An all-encompassing overview of the genre and its key contributors' - Howard Maxford, Film Review, 10th April 2006.

Author Bio

Christopher Frayling is Rector of the Royal College of Art and Professor of Cultural History there. His books include Sergio Leone: Something to Do With Death, Clint Eastwood and a BFI monograph on Things to Come. He is Chairman of the Arts Council, England.