Any Gun Can Play
The Essential Guide to Euro-Westerns
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 27. January 2022
Book
Hardback
480 pages
978-1-913051-14-3 (ISBN)
Description
THE EURO-WESTERN BEYOND LEONE
The full, vibrant history of the Euro-Western, offering everything any fan of Euro-Westerns could ever want to know. 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. Any Gun Can Play explores the films' wider reaches, their recurrent themes, characters, quirks and motifs. It examines the American models and explores the mechanics of the Italian film industry.
- Features the genre's leading lights, including Franco Nero, Giuliano Gemma and Gianni Garko, writer Sergio Donati, and directors Sergio Sollima and Giuliano Carnimeo
- Foreword by Euro-Western legend Franco Nero
This stunningly illustrated reference guide demonstrates why these films became box-office sensations around the world, and their influence can still be felt today.
The full, vibrant history of the Euro-Western, offering everything any fan of Euro-Westerns could ever want to know. 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. Any Gun Can Play explores the films' wider reaches, their recurrent themes, characters, quirks and motifs. It examines the American models and explores the mechanics of the Italian film industry.
- Features the genre's leading lights, including Franco Nero, Giuliano Gemma and Gianni Garko, writer Sergio Donati, and directors Sergio Sollima and Giuliano Carnimeo
- Foreword by Euro-Western legend Franco Nero
This stunningly illustrated reference guide demonstrates why these films became box-office sensations around the world, and their influence can still be felt today.
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Edition
2nd Enlarged ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Godalming
United Kingdom
Edition type
Enlarged edition
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Illustrations
64 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 284 mm
Width: 215 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
2374 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-913051-14-3 (9781913051143)
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Kevin Grant is a freelance journalist and film writer with a passion for exploitation movies. A fan of Westerns since childhood, he has contributed to a range of publications including Flesh & Blood, Delirium, Blood, Money and Vengeance, Hotdog and European Trash Cinema. This is his first book.