Comments on: Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western http://www.austinfisher.me.uk Scholarly writing & musings on film. Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:07:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Austin Fisher http://www.austinfisher.me.uk/publications/radical-frontiers-in-the-spaghetti-western/comment-page-1/#comment-1571 Austin Fisher Sun, 29 May 2011 13:14:42 +0000 http://www.austinfisher.me.uk/?page_id=239#comment-1571 Hi Alex. My apologies for the tardy response. I've been peddling my academic wares to a conference these last few days (along with meeting Franco Nero!). It's wonderful to hear from such an esteemed Spaghetti Western expert as yourself, and many thanks for your support. I totally agree that the historical context of the 60s is too easily overlooked when appraising the era's popular cinema, and I hope I can do something to remedy this. I don't actually discuss "Don't Touch the White Woman" in the book (the "art-house" counter-point to the Spaghettis I employ is, as with Frayling, "Vent d'Est"), though I know exactly what you mean about it and thinking about your words now, I wish I had included it. Grist for the mill of my research certainly, so thank you! Hi Alex. My apologies for the tardy response. I’ve been peddling my academic wares to a conference these last few days (along with meeting Franco Nero!).

It’s wonderful to hear from such an esteemed Spaghetti Western expert as yourself, and many thanks for your support. I totally agree that the historical context of the 60s is too easily overlooked when appraising the era’s popular cinema, and I hope I can do something to remedy this. I don’t actually discuss “Don’t Touch the White Woman” in the book (the “art-house” counter-point to the Spaghettis I employ is, as with Frayling, “Vent d’Est”), though I know exactly what you mean about it and thinking about your words now, I wish I had included it. Grist for the mill of my research certainly, so thank you!

]]> By: Alex Cox http://www.austinfisher.me.uk/publications/radical-frontiers-in-the-spaghetti-western/comment-page-1/#comment-1570 Alex Cox Thu, 19 May 2011 17:52:33 +0000 http://www.austinfisher.me.uk/?page_id=239#comment-1570 I'm looking forward to this! I get tired of being accused of 'injecting' leftist politics into my analysis of Spaghetti Westerns. The sock puppet generation, having missed the 60s and 70s, has no idea what a radical era, or radical cinema, was like. Your book, I hope, will educate such pups as to where these writers and directors were coming from. (Do you include DON'T TOUCH THE WHITE WOMAN? There is no more radical Western) I’m looking forward to this! I get tired of being accused of ‘injecting’ leftist politics into my analysis of Spaghetti Westerns. The sock puppet generation, having missed the 60s and 70s, has no idea what a radical era, or radical cinema, was like. Your book, I hope, will educate such pups as to where these writers and directors were coming from. (Do you include DON’T TOUCH THE WHITE WOMAN? There is no more radical Western)

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