Table of Contents

Introduction I: THE BACKDROP Imagining America A Marxist’s Gotta Do What a Marxist’s Gotta Do II: THE FILMS 3. Go West, Comrade! 4. Violent Mexico III. THE LEGACY 5. Revolutionising Violence 6. Along the Radical Spectrum

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Reclaiming the Spaghetti Western from the domain of the merely cool and repositioning it within the spectrum of late-1960s radical cinema, Radical Frontiers analyses the genre's narrative and cinematographic inscriptions in their political context to uncover Far Left doctrines.

About the Author

Austin Fisher is Lecturer in Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media Arts and Production, University of Bedfordshire.

Reviews

'Austin Fisher takes us back to a time when action films had a point to them, beyond the action; when Westerns could be criticised in the press for following the fashion for student left-wing politics and when Jean-Pierre Gorin, Jean-Luc Godard's creative partner, could say: "every Marxist on the block wanted to make a Western." Austin Fisher brilliantly evokes the atmosphere of those heady times.' Sir Christopher Frayling, Professor Emeritus of Cultural History, Royal College of Art 'I cannot think of another book exactly like Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western: its deft interweaving of political theory, political history and critical analysis gives it a unique place within contemporary cultural studies.' Barry Langford, Professor of Film Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London