Post-Doc, Film Studies
Thesis Title: Radical Frontiers: Political Violence in the Italian Western
Barry Langford
About
I have recently received my Ph.D. from Royal Holloway, University of London. I also hold degrees from the University of Birmingham and Queen Mary, University of London.
My doctoral research analyses militant appropriations of the Italian, or "Spaghetti", Western which occurred around the time of the 1968 protest movements. I show how the codes of the Hollywood Western were adapted and re-inscribed with radically oppositional doctrine, and relate these films' inherent advocacy of insurgent violence to the eventual outbreak of terrorism in 1970s Italy.
I am now preparing my thesis for publication as a book, and conducting research into the discrepancies between intended political inscriptions in popular Italian cinema of the 1960s and its tangible patterns of reception.
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