Tag Archives: Leone

Quotes from/on Leone

Posted on 09/14/2011 by netroller

From Christopher Frayling, Sergio Leone: Something To Do with Death (London: Faber & Faber, 2000). Fralying on Leone: “Leone was drawn, throughout his filmmaking career, to artificial, faraway worlds where realistic surface details were carefully researched, so as to chime with the audience’s … Continue reading →

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Self-Reflexivity, Stylization, Details in the Western

Posted on 08/22/2011 by netroller

Self-Reflexivity → Cinema about cinema Some tendencies of the self-reflexive cinema * The Brechtian project (verfremdung): Apparatus, Ideology, Godard, and Colin MacCabe (“Realism and the Cinema: Notes on Some Brechtian Theses”). * Stylization (not thoroughly analytical, but at once critically detached … Continue reading →

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The Spaghetti Western and Historicity

Posted on 08/21/2011 by netroller

The Spaghetti Western and historicity Christopher Frayling, Spaghetti Westerns, Revised Ed. (New York: I.B. Tauris, 2006) 1) Reactions to the Spaghetti Western * Lack of authenticity: opportunistic imitation, sterile emulation, parody (and self-parody), pastiche based on the notion of historical and … Continue reading →

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Monsieur Verdoux: Charles and Comedy of Murders

Posted on 08/20/2011 by netroller

From Christopher Frayling, Spaghetti Westerns (New York: I.B. Tarius, 2006), 157. “I am just an amateur compared to Mr. Roosevelt and Mr Stalin, who do such things on a grand scale.” – Monsieur Verdoux “Verdoux’ activities are located in a … Continue reading →

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The Spaghetti Western

Posted on 08/18/2011 by netroller

Industrial context Leone’s international success gave new birth to what American producers had considered an exhausted genre. While Hollywood was undergoing a financial crisis, the Italian film industry “sought international capital for popular films, and with American money available as … Continue reading →

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The Western, Violence and Social Contexts

Posted on 08/17/2011 by netroller

As looking into contexts in order to find out some relationship between a film genre and society, one should remember that a contextual study would not provide a final answer to how to make sense of a (re)surge of the genre. … Continue reading →

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The Frontier, Mythic Space, Violence, and Historicity in/of the Film Western

Posted on 07/12/2011 by netroller

Violence Without Redemption/Regeneration “America in the twentieth century has had to confront a number of profound and disturbing ambiguities about violence…beginning with the revolution which created the new nation and continuing through domestic and foreign wars of moralistic conquest and … Continue reading →

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