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Sergio Leone : something to do with death by Frayling, Christopher is a biography available to read on EtoBox.

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The first biography of the Italian director who reinvented the film Western with his series of "spaghetti" westerns.<br> <br> The Italian film director Sergio Leone reinvented the American Western with his movie A Fistful of Dollars, a spare reworking of Akira Kurosawa's Japanese outlaw drama Yojimbo transferred to the Texas-Mexican border. In doing so, Leone also created a new kind of Western protagonist--silent, mysterious, morally ambiguous--and found a new star to embody this new archetype: Clint Eastwood.<br> <br> Leone's entire life pointed toward his reinvention of the American Western: he grew up during the Nazi occupation of Italy, a period in which he saw terrible parallels to the traditional Western. When he was in a position to direct his own films, the low budget of his first "spaghetti" Western meant that he could only afford to hire a relatively unknown American actor, Clint Eastwood, to star in A Fistful of Dollars, which has been credited with reviving the Western as a credible film genre in the 1960s. This book is the first to document not only Leone's life but also to explore fully the development--and phenomenon--of the Italian film Western. In addition, Chri

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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Frayling, Christopher
Publisher
London ; New York: Faber and Faber
Published
2015
Language
EN
ISBN
9780571164387
Category
biography
Subjects
Sports, Literary Fiction, Memoir
Rating
4.42 / 5 (152 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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