Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads (Austin Fisher, ed.)

Read the first essay, Christopher Frayling’s “The Quiet Man Gets Noisy: Sergio Leone, the Italian Western and Ireland,” a discussion of the construction and representation of “Irishness” in American and Italian Westerns in general and of Leone’s Giù la testa in particular. First-rate Frayling, informative and entertaining.