Savage Cinema - Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies

Klappentext Prince's account establishes, for the first time, Peckinpah's place as a major filmmaker. This book is essential reading for those interested in Peckinpah, the problem of movie violence, and contemporary American cinema. Zusammenfassung Stephen Prince explains the rise of explicit violence in the American cinema, its social effects, and the relation of contemporary ultraviolence to the radical, humanistic filmmaking that Peckinpah practiced. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction; 1. Peckinpah and the 1960s; 2. Aestheticizing Violence; 3. Melancholy and Mortality; 4. Interrogating Violence; 5. A Disputed Legacy Notes; Bibliography; Index

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Prince
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1998
• EAN: 9780292765825
• ISBN: 978-0-292-76582-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: University of Texas Press
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet