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Forty years ago as a graduate student I wrote a book about Spaghetti Westerns, called 10,000 Ways to Die. It's an embarrassing tome: full of half-assed semiotics and other attenuated academic nonsense.Thirty years later I wrote an entirely new book with the same title, about the same subject, from a different perspective - that...

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Rigorous in thought yet unruly in spirit, it's hard to think of a more apt guide to the Italian West -- SK * Total Film *
it brings something refreshingly new to the table and will be of genuine interest to any serious fan -- Phil H. * Spaghetti Western DataBase website *
William Leece discovers there's a lot more to film director Alex Cox's new book, after 30 years of experience -- William Leece * Liverpool Daily Post *
Great on influence and anecdotes, with plenty to chew on for spag-buffs * Empire Magazine *
a fascinating, very individual look at the genre -- Matt Bielby * FilmStar Magazine *

10000 Ways to Die

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    A Paperback / softback by Alex Cox

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      Publisher Oldcastle Books Ltd
      Published 25 September 2019
      ISBN-13 9780857303387
      978-0857303387
      ISBN-10 0857303384
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Forty years ago as a graduate student I wrote a book about Spaghetti Westerns, called 10,000 Ways to Die. It's an embarrassing tome: full of half-assed semiotics and other attenuated academic nonsense.Thirty years later I wrote an entirely new book with the same title, about the same subject, from a different perspective - that...

      Trade Review
      Rigorous in thought yet unruly in spirit, it's hard to think of a more apt guide to the Italian West -- SK * Total Film *
      it brings something refreshingly new to the table and will be of genuine interest to any serious fan -- Phil H. * Spaghetti Western DataBase website *
      William Leece discovers there's a lot more to film director Alex Cox's new book, after 30 years of experience -- William Leece * Liverpool Daily Post *
      Great on influence and anecdotes, with plenty to chew on for spag-buffs * Empire Magazine *
      a fascinating, very individual look at the genre -- Matt Bielby * FilmStar Magazine *

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