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A Uniquely American Epic : Intimacy and Action, Tenderness and Violence in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch /

"The life of most films is astoundingly short, sometimes lasting only a month, but Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch endures as a canonical film to this day, half a century after its release in 1969. Due to its powerful, direct depiction of violence, regret, and the challenge of acting ethica...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Bliss, Michael, 1947- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • Introduction : The Wild Bunch at fifty
  • The Homeric power of Peckinpah's violence
  • "Through a Glass, Darkly" : Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch
  • "La Golondrina" : the secret text of The Wild Bunch
  • Revelation in the desert : making history personal
  • "Just looks like more of Texas as far as I'm concerned"
  • Sam Peckinpah, actor's director
  • The Wild Bunch : cinema's founding act of violence
  • Originality and convention : The Wild Bunch as a Western
  • Justified.