Dizionario del western americano 1899-2022

[Machine translation] The western, the genre that more than any other has identified Hollywood since its origins, was born, raised and matured with cinema, and almost all the most important American directors have been confronted with the myth of the Frontier, just as almost all Hollywood actors have sooner or later ridden a horse holding the Colt with the Stetson on the head. Never before has it been easy for fans to have available (thanks to DVDs, Blu-rays, streaming copies or in any case available online) most of the countless western films made in more than a century of cinema. Precisely thinking of this audience, we have tried to account for this immense production, from the beginning of the genre to the latest releases, in sheets that include about 1500 films arranged alphabetically. There are all the westerns starring stars like John Wayne and James Stewart, Gary Cooper and Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda and Burt Lancaster, but also those with apparently minor actors such as Rod Cameron, Audie Murphy and Randolph Scott. Of course, there are all the films by celebrated authors such as John Ford, Howard Hawks, Anthony Mann and Sam Peckinpah, but also works by forgotten directors such as Joseph Kane or Lesley Selander. Leafing through the volume at random, there will certainly be no lack of valuable discoveries even for the most documented admirers of the genre. The authors of the cards, among the leading Italian experts, are just under thirty, each with their own style and tastes. And if in principle the longest cards are those of the most important films, there are also westerns considered wrongly or rightly minor that have had equal space and consideration here. About 1500 titles analyzed in the contributions of: Francesco Ballo, Marco Daperno, Steve Della Casa, Andreina Di Sanzo, Ilaria Feole, Giampiero Frasca, Enrico Giacovelli, Gabriele Gimmelli, Roberto Guarino, Mario Guidorizzi, Massimo Lastrucci, Mariella Lazzarin, Roberto Manassero, Mario Molinari, Alberto Morsiani, Sabrina Negri, Massimo Olivero, Meo Ponte, Lorenzo Rossi, Antonio Rubini, Giulio Sangiorgio, Roberto Silvestri, Simone Tarditi, Emanuele Tealdi, Emanuele Tealdi, Bruno Ugioli, Carlo Valeri, Paolo Vecchi, Roberto Vezzani.