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.
General
| Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Cambridge Film Handbooks |
| Release date: |
December 1998 |
| First published: |
1999 |
| Editors: |
Stephen Prince
|
| Dimensions: |
228 x 151 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
244 |
| Edition: |
New |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-521-58606-1 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Performing arts >
Films, cinema >
General
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-521-58606-2 |
| Barcode: |
9780521586061 |
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