10,000 Ways to Die HSP who in the late 1950s

who in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s liberated screens around the world with a series of films that challenged our assumptions of what the medium could offer and how stories could be told - all of them snapping with style as much as they delivered on ideas

cultural and sexual ideas of their time

an English blueblood with Blackshirt affiliations is killed on the race track

the Existentialists

A passenger manifest containing suffragettes

10,000 Ways to Die HSP who in the late 1950sForty 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 of a working film director. What interested me was what the filmmakers intended, how they did that shot, how the director felt