Title: Savage cinema : Sam Peckinpah and the rise of ultraviolent movies /
Authors: Prince, Stephen, 1955-2020
Publisher: University of Texas Press,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Peckinpah, Sam, Criticism and interpretation.; Violence in motion pictures
Abstract: "More than any other filmmaker, Sam Pekinpah opened the door for graphic violence in movies. In this book, 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."--Cover.
Contents: 1. Peckinpah and the 1960s -- 2. Aestheticizing violence -- 3. Melancholy and mortality -- 4. Interrogating violence -- 5. A disputed legacy.