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I am deeply honoured to have been invited to speak at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in April of this year. My guest lecture to the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, entitled “Go West, Comrade! Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western”, will take place on Monday 16th April. The abstract is below:
A heavily-armed battalion of communist students, led … Continue reading Go West, Comrade… to Tennessee! Corri Uomo, Corri Tomas Milian … Continue reading Corre Homem, Corre From: COMEDY ITALIAN STYLE by Ernesto G. Laura – Compiled by A.N.I.C.A. (National Association of Motion Pictures and Affiliated Industries) Rome, Italy – Edited by CIES Soc. Coop. r.1 (Institute for the Promotion of Italian Motion Pictures Abroad) Rome, Italy under the auspices of the Ministry of Tourism and Entertainment
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Continue reading 5. The Episode Films part eleven I have written a short taster article for my forthcoming book, Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western: Politics, Violence and Popular Italian Cinema. The article addresses the confused political agenda at the heart of Sergio Sollima’s Faccia a faccia (1967), and is up on the IB Tauris website, should you be interested. Read it here: Radical Frontiers – Faccia a faccia
Continue reading Radical Frontiers Taster Article Online Below are my lecture notes (hastily tidied up into more-or-less grammatical sentences for the benefit of the reader) and slides from a talk I have just this morning given at the international conference Film and Media 2011, at the Institute of Education, London. This is very much work in progress, so it’s rough around the edges; nor do I claim … Continue reading My “Machete” paper in full… I shall be addressing the inaugural annual London Film and Media conference – Film and Media 2011 – in July, giving a talk about Robert Rodriguez’s latest film Machete (2010). The abstract is below, and I shall post more details forthwith.
Spaghetti Lefties: Postmodern Politics in Robert Rodriguez’s Machete The confrontational political tone of Robert Rodriguez’s latest Tex-Mex gore-fest Machete… Continue reading Spaghetti Lefties: Postmodern Politics in Robert Rodriguez’s “Machete” – Film and Media 2011 First it was coming last October then delayed because they didn’t have a full version of the film available. Some time later the Blu-Ray was cancelled only to be announced again (as a Blu-Ray & DVD Combo) some weeks ago. And now… IMPORTANT ACTION REQUIRED – All versions of FACCIA A FACCIA to be cancelled UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE Unfortunately I … Continue reading Eureka’s Face to Face Blu-Ray & DVD cancelled (again) My latest article, ‘Go West, Comrade: Unearthing Politics in the Spaghetti Western’, has been published on the world’s foremost Euro Western fan site: the Spaghetti Western Database. I suggest therein that the political significance of the leftist Spaghettis that emerged in and around the era of protest (1966-1970) lies in their propensity towards ideological over-simplification, which directly reflects an equivalent outlook … Continue reading Go West, Comrade… on the Spaghetti Western Database! EDIT: The Blu-Ray has been cancelled. Yeah, I know, I know, a third Face to Face (Faccia a Faccia) Blu-Ray post in a row… So anyways some of you might want to know that it is now available for pre-order from Amazon.co.uk and the release date as mentioned before is 15th of November. Apparently (nothing to do with … Continue reading Face to Face Blu-Ray now at Amazon.co.uk for pre-order Looking at the Face to Face submission to BBFC by Eureka Entertainment Ltd, it seems we will be getting a much shorter version of the movie than what has been available on DVDs. The version submitted on 4th of October 2010 is only 93-94 minutes in length while the previous DVD editions are 107 minutes (and that is in PAL … Continue reading Eureka’s Face to Face Blu-Ray might only feature a shorter version of the film? Play.com is listing Sergio Sollima’s Face to Face (Faccia a faccia, 1967) to be released on Blu-Ray disc 15th of November 2010. There aren’t any kind of specs on the disc yet, not even the company behind the release is listed. Hopefully this is the real deal! http://www.play.com/DVD/Blu-ray/4-/16586563/Face-To-Face/Product.html Thanks to djvaso for this piece of news. EDIT: It seems the … Continue reading Sergio Sollima’s Face to Face (Faccia a faccia) on Blu-Ray? Cultural Borrowings: Appropriation, Reworking, Transformation, edited by Iain Robert Smith, is now online. This exciting new eBook of original scholarship on processes of adaptation in film, television and new media is a special edition of the peer-reviewed journal Scope: an Online Journal of Film and TV Studies. It includes my own article “A Marxist’s Gotta Do What a … Continue reading “A Marxist’s Gotta Do What a Marxist’s Gotta Do” |
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