The spaghetti Western was more than just an Italian imitation. It was a reinvention. Where classic American Westerns of the late 1950s and early '60s leaned on clean-cut heroes and moral clarity, ...

If you think of the Western genre as a bit of a dated one, that’s not entirely fair, but it also might well be understandable. There’s this feeling that it was at its most popular around the middle of ...