Fr. 210.00

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

English · Hardback

Shipping usually within 3 to 5 weeks

Description

Read more

Informationen zum Autor 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. 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionI: THE BACKDROPImagining AmericaA Marxist’s Gotta Do What a Marxist’s Gotta DoII: THE FILMS3. Go West, Comrade!4. Violent MexicoIII. THE LEGACY5. Revolutionising Violence6. Along the Radical Spectrum

About the author

Austin Fisher is Associate Professor of Popular Culture at Bournemouth University, UK, author of Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western (2011), founding co-editor of the “Global Exploitation Cinemas” book series and editor of Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads (2015). He serves on the Editorial Board of the Transnational Cinemas journal, is Co-Chair of the SCMS “Transnational Cinemas” Scholarly Interest Group, and founder of the “Spaghetti Cinema” festival.

Customer reviews

No reviews have been written for this item yet. Write the first review and be helpful to other users when they decide on a purchase.

Write a review

Thumbs up or thumbs down? Write your own review.

For messages to CeDe.ch please use the contact form.

The input fields marked * are obligatory

By submitting this form you agree to our data privacy statement.