ITA240Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Spaghetti Western, Poncho, Italian Fascism
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Chapter 21: economic factors are usually cited for both the spectacular rise and the eventual decline of the spaghetti western. In the 1960s, cinema was still one of the most popular forms of entertainment with annual sales of. In a cinematographic market such as the italian one where, from 1916 until 1950, the film diet tendered to the audience was, besides the parentheses of the war years, almost completely. Hollywoodian in tone if not in national origin, the fact that the spaghetti western dressed itself in. 1960s: various factors contributed to this critical disinterest, first of all, due to the cold war, after 1947, italy stood polarised between the communist party and the christian democrats. In the past several decades, both italian and foreign critics and film historians have moved beyond these outmoded views, and there are several excellent critical studies of both popular.
