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Any gun can play : the essential guide to Euro-westerns / Kevin Grant Godalming, Surrey: FAB Press, May 2011.
Call No: 736.11Author: Grant, Kevin Edition: August 2013Place: Godalming, SurreyPublisher: FAB PressPubDate: May 2011PhysDes: 480 pages : illustrated ; 26 cmSubject: WESTERNS. EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ; WESTERNS. ITALY ; LEONE, SERGIO ; NERO, FRANCO ; BIG GUNDOWN, THE [RESA DEI CONTI, LA] (IT/SP, Sergio Sollima, 1966) ; BLINDMAN (US/IT, Ferdinando Baldi, 1972) ; BULLET FOR THE GENERAL, A (IT, Damiano Damiani, 1966) ; CORBUCCI, SERGIO ; EASTWOOD, CLINT ; FULCI, LUCIO ; HILL, TERENCE ; SPENCER, BUD ; VAN CLEEF, LEE Summary: 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. These films became box-office sensations around the world, and their influence can still be felt today.
Any Gun Can Play puts the phenomenon into perspective, exploring the films' wider reaches, their recurrent themes, characters, quirks and motifs. It examines Euro-westerns in relation to their American ancestors and the mechanics of the Italian popular film industry, and spotlights the unsung actors, directors and other artists who subverted the 'code' of the Western and dragged it into the modern age.
Based on years of research backed up by interviews with many of the genre's leading lights, including actors Franco Nero, Giuliano Gemma and Gianni Garko, writer Sergio Donati, and directors Sergio Sollima and Giuliano Carnimeo, Any Gun Can Play will satisfy both connoisseurs and the curious.
Complete with a foreword by Euro-Western legend Franco Nero, this stunningly illustrated reference guide takes aim at the lingering notion that the genre has little to offer beyond the 'Dollars' films and a fistful of others, exposing the full, vibrant history of the Euro-western. -- publisher's web siteNotes: Foreword by Franco NeroISBN: 9781903254615
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Festival do Rio 2004 : Rio de Janeiro international film festival / Rio de Janeiro international film festival Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: [s.n.], 2004.
Call No: FESTIVAL CATALOGUE SHELVESPlace: Rio de Janeiro, BrazilPublisher: [s.n.]PubDate: 2004PhysDes: 312 p. : ill. ; 26 cmSubject: FESTIVALS. RIO DE JANEIRO ; FOREIGN FILMS
USE: IMPORT OF FILMS ; WORLD CINEMA ; BOLLYWOOD ; LEONE, SERGIO Notes: The Festival do Rio 2004 (Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival) includes a selection of feature length films, short films and documentaries. The festival also has a strong emphasis on Brazilian and Latin American cinema, South African cinema, Midnight movies, as well as retrospectives on Bollywood film and the films of Sergio Leone. The catalogue also includes numerous black and white and colour stills and film synopses. NB. The festival catalogue is in both English and Portugese languages and also contains an index section.
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A fistful of dollars in Sydney University Film Group Bulletin (Aug. 1971) iss.55 p.34
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Horizons west: directing the western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood London: British Film Institute, 2004.
Call No: 736 KITAuthor: Kitses, Jim Edition: 2nd ed.Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 2004PhysDes: 343 p. ; 23 cmSubject: WESTERNS ; CRITICISM: METHODOLOGY OF FILM CRITICISM ; Peckinpah, Sam ; LEONE, SERGIO ; EASTWOOD, CLINT ; MANN, ANTHONY ; BOETTICHER, BUDD ; FORD, JOHN Notes: An expanded update on the 1969 edition, ‘Horizons West’ focuses on the ‘Western’ genre. It pays attention to the work of particular film directors (John Ford, Anthony Mann, Budd Boetticher, Sam Peckinpah, Sergio Leone, and Clint Eastwood) and the many themes that these people directed. Includes a brief assessment of criticism of the Western influenced by postmodernism and other cultural movements.ISBN: 1844570509
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Italian cinema : from neorealism to the present / Peter Bondanella New York: F. Ungar Pub. Co., c1983.
Call No: 71(45) BONAuthor: Bondanella, Peter E., 1943 Place: New YorkPublisher: F. Ungar Pub. Co.PubDate: c1983PhysDes: viii, 440 p. : ill. ; 22 cmSeries: Ungar film librarySubject: ITALY ; NEOREALISM ; WESTERNS. ITALY ; CAVANI, LILIANA ; WERTMULLER, LINA ; COMENCINI, LUIGI ; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO ; DE SICA, VITTORIO ; VISCONTI, LUCHINO ; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO ; Fellini, Federico ; BERTOLUCCI, BERNARDO ; LEONE, SERGIO ; Pasolini, Pier Paolo ; FERRERI, MARCO ; GERMI, PIETRO ; LATTUADA, ALBERTO ; MONICELLI, MARIO ; PONTECORVO, GILLO ; RISI, DINO ; ROSI, FRANCESCO ; TAVIANI, PAOLO & VITTORIO ; OLMI, ERMANNO ; PETRI, ELIO ; BRUSATI, FRANCO ; BELLOCCHIO, MARCO Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 413-421ISBN: 0804420645 : $17.95; 0804460612 (pbk.) : $10.95LON: 2315799 2315799
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Landscape and Place in Wide Angle (December 1993) vol.15 iss.4 p.[whole issue]
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Leone land struggling for a few dollars more in Sunday Age (26/07/2015) p.30
Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; LOCATION SHOOTING. SPAINAuthor: Quinn, Karl PhysDes: Clippings File ArticleSubject: LOCATION SHOOTING. SPAIN ; WESTERNS ; LEONE, SERGIO Summary: Writer visits the Spanish province of Tabernas which has been a location where many films have been shot, including a number of Sergio Leone's westerns
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LEONE, SERGIO
Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTIONPhysDes: ClippingsSubject: LEONE, SERGIO
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The New Spag Western in Melbourne Film Bulletin (March 1970) iss.11 p.27-28
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Sergio Leone : something to do with death / Christopher Frayling London: Faber and Faber, 2000.
Call No: 81LEO FRAAuthor: Frayling, Christopher Place: LondonPublisher: Faber and FaberPubDate: 2000PhysDes: xvi,570p., [16]p. of plates : ports. ; 24 cmSubject: LEONE, SERGIO Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0571164382(pbk.) : ª20.00LON: 21340955
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Spaghetti westerns : cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone / Christopher Frayling London Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981.
Call No: 736.2 FRAAuthor: Frayling, Christopher Place: London BostonPublisher: Routledge & Kegan PaulPubDate: 1981PhysDes: xvi, 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: Cinema and societySubject: WESTERNS. EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ; WESTERNS. ITALY ; LEONE, SERGIO ; BERTOLUCCI, BERNARDO ; EASTWOOD, CLINT ; FORD, JOHN ; MORRICONE, ENNIO ; SOLLIMA, SERGIO ; VOLONTE, GIAN MARIA ; WRIGHT, WILL ; MAY, KARL ; ECO, UMBERTO ; CORBUCCI, SERGIO ; DAMIANI, DAMIANO ; PER UN PUGNO DI DOLLARI (IT/SP/GW, Sergio Leone, 1964) ; C`ERA UNA VOLTA IL WEST (IT/FR, Sergio Leone, 1968) ; PER QUALCHE DOLLARO IN PIU (IT/SP/GW, Sergio Leone, 1965) ; BUONO, IL BRUTTO, IL CATTIVO, IL (IT, Sergio Leone, 1966) Notes: Includes indexes; Bibliography: p. 289-294ISBN: 0710005040 (pbk.); 0710005032 (hard)LON: 1933684
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