Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Figures v
4. Acknowledgements vii
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1 The Quiet Man Gets Noisy: Sergio Leone, the Italian Western and Ireland 13
7. Part I Trans-genre Roots
8. Chapter 2 Pietro Germi, Hybridity and the Roots of the Italo-Western 47
9. Chapter 3 Malaysian Pirates, American Cowboys and the Marginalised Outlaw: Constructing Other-ed Adventurers in Italian Film 67
10. Part II Ethnic Identities, Transnational Politics
11. Chapter 4 Spectacles of Insurgency: Witnessing the Revolution as Incoherent Text 87
12. Chapter 5 Emancipation all’italiana: Giuseppe Colizzi and the Representation of African Americans in Italian Westerns 103
13. Chapter 6 Corbucci Unchained: Miike, Tarantino and the Postmodern Discursivity of Exploitation Cinema 125
14. Part III Asian Crossovers
15. Chapter 7 Bounty Hunters, Yakuzas and Rōnins: Intercultural Transformations between the Italian Western and the Japanese Swordfight Film in the 1960s 145
16. Chapter 8 Spaghetti Westerns and Asian Cinema: Perspectives on Global Cultural Flows 166
17. Chapter 9 Cowboys and Indians: Transnational Borrowings in the Indian Masala Western 185
18. Part IV Routes of Relocation, Transition and Appropriation
19. Chapter 10 For a Few Comic Strips More: Reinterpreting the Spaghetti Western through the Comic Book 211
20. Chapter 11 Transit to East Germany: The Distribution and Reception of Once Upon a Time in the West in the German Democratic Republic 239
21. Chapter 12 Spaghetti Westerns and the ‘Afterlife’ of a Hollywood Genre 262
22. Filmography 279
23. Notes on the Contributors 290
24. Index 293