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The Art of Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West - A Critical Appreciation (Paperback)
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The Art of Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West - A Critical Appreciation (Paperback)
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Few directors are characterized by both extraordinary film craft
and the ironic reputation for lowbrow films. Despite his many
achievements as a child of the Italian Cinecitta studios, however,
Sergio Leone has been judged severely by writers who find his films
lacking in ideas and moralists who find his films unduly cynical.
Nevertheless, Leone's greatest cinematic achievement, Once Upon a
Time in the West, served to refute these criticisms while exposing
the director's unique romanticism and artistic ambition. As Leone's
fourth successful American western film, Once Upon a Time in the
West earned him acclaim for liberating the western genre, restoring
it to a place of antique American simplicity. The principal goal of
this book is to sharpen an appreciation for Sergio Leone and his
most famous American western. The first two chapters deal with the
relationship between Once Upon a Time in the West and the western
films that preceded it, particularly those of John Ford. Subsequent
chapters concentrate on the central characters of Once Upon a Time
in the West, with special attention to Jill, Leone's first female
protagonist and a surprisingly successful character, central to the
plot and accorded a kind of existential strength usually reserved
for men in Westerns. The sixth, seventh and eighth chapters address
Leone's visual style, which represents a unique fusion of Hollywood
classicism and modernism, and reveals the influences of Italian
Surrealism and the French New Wave. The final chapters explore the
rhythm, romanticism, and musical character of Once Upon a Time in
the West, espousing the theory that Leone's approach to film is,
above all, musical.
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