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. This volume includes freshly-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.
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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. This volume includes freshly-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.
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This book is a collection of essays on "The Wild Bunch" written in the late 90s. (When I bought the book, I had thought that the book would include some original reviews and show how attitudes toward "The Wild Bunch" had changed over time.)Most of the essays are very good. The first, on how the script of the movie took shape, is worth the price of the book itself. Apparently, one can make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, or at least we movie lovers were extremely lucky. The only essay that is a dud is the last one, in which the author argues that "The Wild Bunch" is not a great film, that it is too romantic, and that "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" is Peckinpah's real masterpiece. Now, I think PG&BK is a very good movie, but it doesn't hold up as well as "The Wild Bunch" (and I have seen the restored PG&BK.) The idea of including an essay attacking the greatness of a movie that is the inspiration for the book strikes me as odd. However, this book is recommended for those with an interest in Westerns and Sam Peckinpah.
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If ever there was a film that absolutely demonstrates the validity of the auteur theory as it is commonly understood - that the director is the "author" of a film - it is surely The Wild Bunch. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ballistic balletics, wild bunch, final massacre, montage editing, screen violence, movie violence, western genre, bounty hunters, principal photography Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Sam Peckinpah, Pat Garrett, Agua Verde, Major Dundee, Deke Thornton, Aqua Verde, Butch Cassidy, David Weddle, Pike Bishop, Straw Dogs, Walon Green, Billy the Kid, William Holden, World War, Ride the High Country, John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Roy Sickner, San Rafael, Seven Samurai, Anthony Mann, Arthur Penn, Bring Me the Head, Crazy Lee New!
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If ever there was a film that absolutely demonstrates the validity of the auteur theory as it is commonly understood - that the director is the "author" of a film - it is surely The Wild Bunch. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ballistic balletics, wild bunch, final massacre, montage editing, screen violence, movie violence, western genre, bounty hunters, principal photography Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Sam Peckinpah, Pat Garrett, Agua Verde, Major Dundee, Deke Thornton, Aqua Verde, Butch Cassidy, David Weddle, Pike Bishop, Straw Dogs, Walon Green, Billy the Kid, William Holden, World War, Ride the High Country, John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Roy Sickner, San Rafael, Seven Samurai, Anthony Mann, Arthur Penn, Bring Me the Head, Crazy Lee New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Bonnie and Clyde by Arthur Penn on 10 pages
- Butch Cassidy (Outlaws and Lawmen of the Wild West) by Carl R. Green on 5 pages
- Seven Samurai: The Ultimate Film Guide by Akira Kurosawa on 4 pages
- On Violence (Harvest Book) by Hannah Arendt on page 118, page 128, and Back Matter
- Peckinpah: A Portrait in Montage by Garner Simmons on page 73, page 153, and Back Matter
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