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Article description: Cowgirls! Saloon Girls! "Damsels in distress"! Sex & violence! Eroticism in western cinema and comics: from Hollywood's "indecent" (according to the Hays code) super-classics such as The Outlaw (1943), Duel in the Sun (1946) and Colorado Territory (1949) to the little-known pulp-western-B-movies, yet worthy of a re-discovery, such as For Guns To the Border (1955), A Lust To Kill (1959), the western-horror masterpiece Curse of the Undead (1959), the curious Five Bold Women (1960, starring Irish "Sheena" McCalla), the hyper-violent Five Savage Men (1971); from the nudie sexploitation flicks by Russ Meyer (Wild Gals of the Naked West!, 1961), Lee Frost (The Hot Spur, 1968, The Scavengers, 1969), David Friedman (Brand of Shame, 1968, The Erotic Adventures of Zorro, 1972) to the campy French & Belgian western-érotique outings (Les Filles du Golden Saloon, Convoi des femmes, Règlements de femmes à O.Q. Corral, L'Arrière-train sifflera trois fois); from the westerns "all'Italiana" (Giarrettiera Colt, Yankee, John il bastardo, Belle Starr story, Il tempo degli avvoltoi, Lola Colt, Fedra West, Blindman…) to the Italian-styled American & British westerns, above all those featuring the "Sex Bomb" Raquel Welch (100 Rifles, 1969 and Hannie Caulder, 1972); naturally, you can also find such obligatory titles as La strada dei giganti (1960), Soldier Blue (1970), El Topo (1971), Dans la poussière du soleil (1972), China 9 Liberty 37 (1978)… Including notes, comments and illustrations aplenty!
This tome also features a never-before-published bibliographic guide to the western heroines of the comics as well as the magazines spotlighting their adventures (including the "fotoromanzi"). From the spicy American comic-books (Black Phantom, Firehair…) to such pre-code pulp-comics as Polly of the Plains and the fetish'n'bizarre comix by Ruiz and Eneg; from the first mildly erotic Italian western comics (La Bella del Texas, Satania…) to the infamous "fumetti per adulti" (Vartan, Kalamity Jane, Raquel, La vergine nera, Samantha, Mortimer, La texana…).
Come, join us and experience the Wild West as you have never seen it before! A curious reference book for the fans of cinema and comics.
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