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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455287103321

Autore

Murray Gabrielle

Titolo

This wounded cinema, this wounded life [[electronic resource] ] : violence and utopia in the films of Sam Peckinpah / / Gabrielle Murray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2004

ISBN

1-282-40630-2

9786612406300

0-313-02773-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172 p.)

Disciplina

791.4302/33/092

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes filmography: p. [131].

Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-156) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 This Wounded Cinema, This Wounded Life; 2 Dead to the World; 3 Deep Play: Rituals of Violence and Enchantment; 4 Persevering in Our Existence; 5 The Savage, or "Let Love In!"; Conclusion; Sam Peckinpah Filmography; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.||Placin