Sergio Leone - Couverture souple

Carlson, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1903047412 ISBN 13 : 9781903047415

Editeur : Pocket Essentials, 2001

Synopsis

Sergio Leone breathed new life into the Western genre at a time America was deciding the Western was dead. He established and defined the spaghetti western as a new sub-genre. He made an international star of Clint Eastwood, and proved a major influence when Eastwood went on to direct. Leone brought the composer Ennio Morricone to the attention of audiences around the world. And he ended his career with a gangster epic to rival The Godfather.

Born into an Italian film-making family, Leone's early experiences were on costume epics, and working with American directors on cheap Italian locations. He used this knowledge when he adapted the Japanese classic Yojimbo into the spaghetti western A Fistful Of Dollars. The immediate success of the film propelled Leone into the front rank of world directors and left him free to make bigger and bigger tales of a mythical America he dreamed into existence.

This book analyses all of Leone's films and includes background information about his early career, his immense influence on the Western and on film-makers like Quentin Tarantino and John Woo, and the subsequent careers of Eastwood and Morricone.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michael Carlson has written on film for the Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent and Headpress. He is the film editor for Crime Time and the author of Pocket Essentials on Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pocket Essentials
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1903047412
• ISBN 13: 9781903047415
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible