Sam Peckinpah's The wild bunch edited by Stephen Prince

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Prince, Stephen, 1955-2020

Series:

Cambridge film handbooks series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wild bunch (Motion picture).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press ©1999

Summary:

Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch is one of the most influential films in American cinema. The intensity of its violence was unprecedented, while the director's use of multiple cameras, montage editing, and slow motion quickly became the normative style for rendering screen violence. Demonstrating to filmmakers the power of irony as a narrative voice and its effectiveness as a tool for exploring and portraying brutality, The Wild Bunch fundamentally changed the Western, moving it into a more brutal and psychopathic territory than it had ever occupied. This volume includes newly commissioned essays by several leading scholars of Peckinpah's work. Examining the film's production history from script to screen, its rich and ambivalent vision of American society, and its relationship to the Western genre, among other topics, it provides a definitive reinterpretation of an enduring film classic.--Publisher description

Contents:

Introduction : Sam Peckinpah, savage poet of American cinema / Stephen Prince

The wild bunch : the screenplay / Paul Seydor

Peckinpah the radical : the politics of The wild bunch / Christopher Sharrett

"Back off to what?" Enclosure, violence, and capitalism in Sam Peckinpah's The wild bunch / Michael Bliss

Ballistic balletics : styles of violent representation in The wild bunch and after / David A. Cook

Re-visioning the western : code, myth, and genre in Peckinpah's The wild bunch / Wheeler Winston Dixon

The wild bunch : innovation and retreat / Devin McKinney

Reviews and commentary

Notes:

Filmography: pages 213-220

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-223) and index

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Other Format:

Print version Sam Peckinpah's The wild bunch

ISBN:

9780511624407

0511624409

OCLC:

558432067

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