The Western Italian , coverage of the French edition (1977).
If the work of Laurence Staig and Tony Williams is not, in 1975, the first synthesis devoted to the genre, it is probably the first to offer a panorama of the spaghetti western as onsite a book.
Published in England under the title of program: Italian Western The Opera of Violence, (1975), the work of Staiger and Williams quickly became a benchmark often used by the successors. Its architecture draws the prototype of all subsequent publication dedicated to the Italian westerns. Staiger and Williams open many lanes on the images and themes specific to the type subsequently developed with varying degrees of originality. Basically, nothing new will be written that they have already more or less explicitly stated. Particular attention is given to music.
Luckily, a small French-language publisher has the right idea to translate the book in 1977 and despite a confidential distribution, Le Journal de Spirou actually a short form advertising critical praise. The Italian Western , Staig of and Williams becomes a must for the amateur, in the desert of publications devoted to the then European westen.
now 45 years old, The Western Italian goes well the test of time, despite the small errors due to technical criticism of the time: handwritten notes taken in theaters obscure the light of a small flashlight, and tape recording or soundtracks.
The authors present a list of 200 films, sometimes correct: Now it is called Plata is not really a western, even if the team Colizzi, Spencer and Hill found there, some titles are not translated in French, some dates correspond to the international release of a film, not the date of production and filming.
If the opportunity presents itself, the spaghetti western aficionado of should not hesitate to acquire Italian Western The Opera of Violence. It also remains a valuable testimony on a perception of contemporary spaghetti western genre.
Italian Western The Opera of Violence , coverage of the original English edition (1975).
Staig Laurence, Tony Williams, Italian Western The Opera of Violence , Lorrimer, London, 1975.
Staig Laurence, Tony Williams, The Western Italian Marc Minoustchine, 1977, for the French translation.
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