Paula Hammond - Features EditorIf you love film — and you love books about film — then you’re in luck. There have always been the academic, the ponderous, and the occasionally dull as ditchwater book that treats film as something sacred, to be spoken of in hushed tones, and only by those suitably qualified to do so.
Sergio Leone: The Revolution of the Western thankfully shakes off the stuffiness that sometimes stifles film studies, offering up something fresh, fun, and accessible.
Designed in comic-book format, Sergio Leone: The Revolution of the Western is the next insightful instalment of biographical graphic novels by Amazing Améziane (following the volumes on Quentin by Tarantino and Don Coppola).
Focussing on the man behind the iconic Spaghetti Westerns, this small but delightfully produced book looks at the man behind the critically acclaimed Dollars Trilogy, assessing both his life, and the impact of his movies on generations of film-goers and film-makers.
Spread over 192 pages, there’s detail enough here to please any Western aficionado, but the real win is the fact that a graphic novel film-biography is such an incredibly fitting way to celebrate and highlight Leone’s own unique visual language — what are storyboards but comic-strips, after all?
Sergio Leone: The Revolution of the Western (ISBN 978-1787747562) is available from 4th November, RRP £21.99.
