Topic summary
Italian Western
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Spaghetti Western.
Terminology
The phrase spaghetti Western was coined by Spanish journalist Alfonso Sánchez Martínez in 1966, in reference to the Italian food spaghetti. Spaghetti Westerns are also known as Italian Westerns, meatball Westerns or, primarily in Japan, macaroni Westerns. In Italy, the genre is typically referred to as western all'italiana (Italian-style Western). Italo-Western is also used, especially in Germany.