Forty years ago as a graduate student I wrote a book about Spaghetti Westerns, called 10,000 Ways to Die. It's an embarrassing tome: full of half-assed semiotics and other attenuated academic nonsense.
Thirty years later I wrote an entirely new book with the same title, about the same subject, from a different perspective - that of a working film director. What interested me was what the filmmakers intended, how they did that shot, how the director felt when his film was recut by the distributor, and he was creatively and financially screwed.
Now I have prepared a new edition of 10,000 Ways to Die. It reflects my changing thoughts about the Italian Western, which I still greatly admire. It includes corrections, additions, and new sections on films I changed my mind about, or hadn't seen - including Lina Wertmuller's BELLE STAR - the only Italian Western directed by a woman.
- ISBN10 1842434020
- ISBN13 9781842434024
- Publish Date 19 October 2010 (first published 22 April 2009)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oldcastle Books Ltd
- Imprint Kamera Books
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 384
- Language English
- URL https://kamerabooks.co.uk