"Forty years ago as a graduate student I wrote a book about Spaghetti Westerns, called 10,000 Ways to Die .
What interested me was what the filmmakers intended, how they did that shot, how the director felt when his film was recut by the d.
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.
It\'s an embarrassing tome: full of half-assed semiotics and other attenuated academic nonsense. "Forty years ago as a graduate student I wrote a book about Spaghetti Westerns, called 10,000 Ways to Die