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<font size="2"><p>Book Review
<font size="4"><br>Spaghetti Westerns</font>
<br>by Gary Johnson</font>
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<p><font size="6" color="#FF0000"><b>U</b></font>pon its release in 1981, Christopher Frayling's <i>Spaghetti Westerns</i> brought some deserved respect to a sub-genre that many critics had treated with contempt. Previously, many Western critics had refused to consider "Spaghetti Westerns" as a subject for serious criticism. Studies of the Western typically either disregarded "Spaghetti Westerns" entirely or discussed them only briefly and in largely condescending terms. Frayling's <i>Spaghetti Westerns</i> played a major role in changing these attitudes by placing European Westerns within a social, political, and industrial framework.
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