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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Columbia University Press : Made available through hoopla, 2012
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780231502078 (electronic bk.) MWT11860866, 0231502079 (electronic bk.) 11860866
LANGUAGE
English
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In 1974, The Wall Street Journal called this movie "grotesque, sadistic, irrational, obscene, incompetent," while New York Magazine declared it "a catastrophe." Upon its initial release, Sam Peckinpah́ s notorious work took a critical and commercial nosedive, but in later years, the work was heralded as a demented masterpiece& mdash;a violent, hallucinatory autobiography and a brilliant example of "pure Peckinpah." This study revisits the making of this controversial film, as well as its original reception and subsequent reassessment. It reads the project as an auteur work, a genre film, a confession, and a bizarre self-parody
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