š Includes The Good, The Bad and the
Ugly, Death Rides a Horse, Django Kill,
They Call Me Trinity, Once Upon a Time
In The West, Compañeros and many
more…
š Complete range of films discussed,
along with the impact of the spaghetti
western genre on modern cinema
š ‘Accessible and attractively produced,
Kamera Books is an excellent, well-
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SPAGHETTI
WESTERNS
HOWARD HUGHES
They are tough. They are the fastest, coolest Howard Hughes analyses the entire genre,
gunslingers of the sixties and they don’t talk much. from the mainstream offerings to more
They are the heroes of the Italian Spaghetti
offbeat oddities, and includes notes on
West and they changed the Western forever.
Ennio Morricone’s fabulous groundbreaking
Clint Eastwood’s poncho-clad, cigar-smoking
Western scores. He also charts the Spaghetti
Man With No Name is the enduring symbol of the
Western careers of actors like Lee Van Cleef,
genre and his Dollars trilogy with Sergio Leone
Terence Hill and Klaus Kinski as they rode
reinvented action cinema, adding a European
the trail to international stardom. As well as
freshness to the time-worn Western myths.
an introduction to the genre, 34 of the best
But Leone and Eastwood weren’t the only
Spaghetti Westerns are analysed in detail.
hombres to saddle-up and head West, and this
There is also a fully updated multi-media
Kamera Books edition rounds up and reviews the
reference section, with details of DVDs,
best of a very wild bunch, including perennial
soundtracks, books and websites.
cult classics Django, The Big Gundown, Django £12.99 PAPERBACK WITH FLAPS
Kill and They Call Me Trinity. AVAILABLE JULY 2009
194 X 135mm
Howard Hughes is the author of The Pocket Essential American 160pp + 8PP COLOUR
Indian Wars, Once Upon a Time in the Italian West, Crime
RIGHTS: WORLD
Wave: The Filmgoers’ Guide to the Great Crime Films,
ISBN: 978-1-84243-303-4
Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoers’ Guide to the Great
Westerns and Aim for the Heart: The Films of Clint Eastwood,
and is a contributing writer to Cinema Retro.
www.kamerabooks.com/spaghettiwesterns/
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