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A new guide covering the spaghetti western genre, which not only made a star out of Clint Eastwood, Klaus Kinski, Lee Van Cleef and many others but was a major

What links Italian neorealism to Django Unchained, French comic books to Third-World insurgency, and Bollywood song-and-dance to Eastern Bloc film distribution?

Spaghetti Westerns--mostly produced in Italy or by Italians but made throughout Europe--were bleaker, rougher, grittier imitations of Hollywood Westerns, focusi

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