Journey through the cinema of Sergio Corbucci
of Vincent Jourdan
Publisher : Editions Lett Motif (July 24, 2018)
Language : French
Number of pages : 310 pages
Known above all for his baroque, funny and violent Italian westerns, Navajo Joe , Django , El Mercenario , The Great Silence or Companeros , Sergio Corbucci is also a director whose extensive filmography includes more than sixty feature films.
From post-war neorealism to the melodramas of the fifties, from the golden age of genre cinema (western, gothic, peplum) to the great hours of comedy (his favorite genre) until the difficult years, seventies and eighties, he crossed four decades of Italian cinema, embracing all the movements, sometimes precursor, always animated by the passion to film.
Roman through and through, endearing personality, “the other Sergio” has aroused little interest from critics. This book is the first to cover his entire career, a rich and exciting work to discover in all its facets.
A visceral cinephile who has raged on the airwaves and various sites (Kinok, Zoom Back, Les Fiches du Cinéma), Vincent Jourdan is the author of the Inisfree blog ( http://inisfree.hautetfort.com/ ) where he has shared his tastes since 2004. eclectic, embracing with a broad and generous movement John Ford and Sergio Corbucci, Africa and Asia, Cinemascope and Super 8.
President of the association Regard Indépendant, Vincent has been leading the Cinema and Video Meetings in Nice since 1999 around the cinema which takes a step aside. Journey through the cinema of Sergio Corbucci is his first work.