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- Title
National identity in Italian westerns and post-westerns.
- Authors
González, Jesús Ángel
- Abstract
Since Schatz defined the western genre as America's foundation ritual, several film critics have emphasized the role of the western as a foundational fiction. Interestingly enough, just like American westerns deal with American identity and its foundational myth, one can find westerns and post-westerns made in other countries that are also concerned with these countries' national identities. This article analyses how spaghetti westerns set in the United States deal metaphorically with Italian identity and foundational myths, and how post-western films set in Italy approach similar topics more directly. The article considers several films, by directors like Pietro Germi, Sergio Sollima, Florestano Vancini or Pasquale Squitieri, from the perspective of transnational post-westerns in order to scrutinize the way they deal with the difficulties of integration of the North and the South of Italy and present different perspectives on the Italian foundational myth of Risorgimento.
- Subjects
ITALIAN films; NATIONAL character; AMERICAN identity; WESTERN films; FILM critics
- Publication
Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies, 2024, Vol 12, Issue 3, p361
- ISSN
2047-7368
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/jicms_00265_1