Peckinpah today
Subtitle: new essays on the films of Sam Peckinpah
By: edited with an introduction by Michael Bliss
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780809331062; 9780809331079
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: times maybe, not them, the enduring value of Sam Peckinpah's films / Michael Bliss; title: The deadly companions revisited / Garner Simmons; title: Martyred slaves of time: age, regret, and transcendence in The wild bunch / Michael Bliss; title: The ballad of divine retribution / Steven Lloyd; title: From The siege of Trencher's farm to Straw dogs: the narrative brilliance of Sam Peckinpah / Michael Sragow; title: The recutting of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: ethical problems in film restoration / Stephen Prince; title: The authentic death and contentious afterlife of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: the several versions of Peckinpah's last western / Paul Seydor; title: Human striving, human strife: Sam Peckinpah and the journey of the soul / Cordell Strug; title: Peckinpah's last testament: The Osterman weekend / Tony Williams; title: Dawn and dusk / Gérard Camy ; translated by Jean-Paul Gabert.