Spaghetti Western

The Spaghetti Western — so-called due to its low-budget Italian production — is a thrice-removed facsimile of the real thing, passed down through pulp literature via American film adaptation. Its fast and loose approach to both content and structure caricatured the West as a land of larger-than-life heroes and villains ever-drifting through a procession of towns, jail cells, Italo-Mexicans, saloons, and sunsets in search of salvation or revenge, often one and the same. — Art of the Title