Spaghetti Westerns - Week 1 – January 5 Week 6 – February 8 Winter 2017 Course Intro: Identifying The Zapata Spaghetti Plot Genres Run Man, Run (Corri uomo corri) – Professor: Yuri M. Sangalli Sergio Sollima, 1968 Week 2 – January 11 ☎: 661.2111 ext. 86039 The Classic Western Week 7 – February 15 ✉: Please use OWL for all course Shane – George Stevens, 1958 The (Stylized) Italian Western correspondence and (Genre) History Once Upon a Time in the West (C’era Marking scheme: una volta il West) – S. Leone, 1968 Test - two hours, in class 15% Group presentation + report February 20-24 Reading Week (written/web-based) 15% Essay - 2500 words max. 25% Final exam – three hours 30% Class participation and attendance* 15% Week 9 – March 8 *attendance taken at each After the Italian Western: The screening and class Professional Plot The Wild Bunch – Sam Peckinpah, Students are expected to view 1969 films and complete readings Week 10 – March 15 before coming to class. Vengeance Plots and Urban

Week 3 – January 18 Vigilantes: the Poliziesco The Samurai Film and the Revolver – Sergio Sollima, 1973 Peplum Adventure Film Yojimbo – Akira Kurosawa, 1961 Week 11 – March 22 Quentin Tarantino’s “Southern Week 4 – January 25 Western” The Servant of 2 Masters Plot Week 8 – March 1 Django Unchained – Quentin Django – Sergio Corbucci, 1966 The Meta Spaghetti Western: Tarantino, 2012

Genre Parody Week 12 – March 29 Week 5 – February 1 My Name Is Nobody (Il mio nome è Group presentations The Transitional Plot nessuno) – Tonino Valerii, 1973 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il Week 13 – April 5 buono, il brutto e il cattivo) – Sergio March 2 – Test (2 hours) Group presentations Leone, 1966 Friday April 7 - Essay due