Once Upon A Time In The West: Shooting a Masterpiece

Full title: Once Upon A Time In The West: Shooting a Masterpiece

Author: Sir Christopher Frayling; with a foreword by Quentin Tarantino
Format: ?
Language: English
Pages: 336
ISBN: 1909526339
Publisher: Reel Art Press
Publication date: April 2019
Series: -

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Description:

Sergio Leone's film Once Upon a Time in the West set out to be the ultimate Western a celebration of the power of classic Hollywood cinema, a meditation on the making of America, and a lament for the decline of one of the most cherished film genres in the form of a 'dance of death'. With this film, Leone said a fond farewell to the noisy and flamboyant world of the Italian Western, which he had created with A Fistful of Dollars and sequels (1964-6), and aimed for something much more ambitious an exploration of the relationship between myth ('Once Upon a Time...'), history ('...in the West') and his own autobiography as an avid film-goer.

About the author

Sir Christopher Frayling is perhaps the most wide-ranging cultural historian of our times: the author of numerous publications on subjects ranging from vampires to Westerns; the writer and presenter of successful television series, whether on advertising, the Middle Ages or Tutankhamun. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and was Rector of the Royal College of Art, London, from 1996 to 2009, where he remains Professor Emeritus of Cultural History. His many public appointments have included Chairman of Arts Council England; Chairman of the Design Council; and the longest-serving Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

He is probably best known for his early championing of Italian Westerns as worthy of academic study and often attends events on this genre as a keynote speaker.