This wounded cinema, this wounded life : violence and utopia in the films of Sam Peckinpah / Gabrielle Murray.
Film scholarship has largely failed to address the complex and paradoxical nature of the films of Sam Peckinpah, focusing primarily on the violence of movies such as The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs while ignoring the poetry and gentility of lesser-known pictures including The Ballad of Cable Hogue and...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Westport, Conn. :
Praeger,
2004.
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| Summary: | Film scholarship has largely failed to address the complex and paradoxical nature of the films of Sam Peckinpah, focusing primarily on the violence of movies such as The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs while ignoring the poetry and gentility of lesser-known pictures including The Ballad of Cable Hogue and Junior Bonner. Serving as a necessary corrective, Gabrielle Murray's This Wounded Cinema, This Wounded Life: Violence and Utopia in the Films of Sam Peckinpah offers a better understanding of the work of this landmark director through close readings of both his famous and less-famous works. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (159 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes filmography: page 131. Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-156) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0313027730 9780313027734 9780275980580 0275980588 1282406302 9781282406308 9786612406300 6612406305 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |