Out now: Sergio Leone Bertz + Fischer! 
for about two weeks Leone is my book published and available at last!
who get a first impression will gain from the book is on the side of my publishing the Contents and sample chapter . read
the book:
Sergio Leone (1929-1989) was one of the most important directors of Italian postwar cinema. His work takes both in terms of its artistic quality and its enormous influence on Italian genre cinema and in view of its outstanding commercial success in a special position. Even Leone's second , directing the Western per un Pugno Tues Dollari ( for a handful of dollar , 1964), despite the extremely advanced low budget quickly become one of the most successful post-war Italian films and drew a wave of over 500 Italian and Western European productions to be the same height and end of the "economic miracle" of postwar Italian cinema marked. Even after his first success was the genre cinema Leone faithful per un Pugno Tues Dollari did he follow four other Western all'italiana and once upon a time in america ( it once was in America ; 1984), his only major US-financed production, he devoted himself the gangster film.
This book provides a hermeneutical analysis of Leone's oeuvre, including detailed film analysis of il Colosso di Rodi ( The Colossus of Rhodes , 1961) to once upon a time in america (1984). It will be included in the analysis of individual cultural aspects of each development context and the contemporary reception and placed the films in their respective genre context - from Peplum and the variants of the Western all'italiana to the gangster film. In cross-plant sections are further aspects of the film industry transatlantic cultural transfer shows gender discourses in Leone's films and worked out the special importance of Ennio Morricone ( me playing the song of death , 1968), film music, especially for C'era una volta il West shown. Finally, image design and installation of Leone films, and the immense influence his work on film productions up in the contemporary cinema into investigated.
