Peckinpah today new essays on the films of Sam Peckinpah /

Peckinpah today new essays on the films of Sam Peckinpah / [electronic resource] : edited with an introduction by Michael Bliss. - Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. - xi, 196 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: times maybe, not them, the enduring value of Sam Peckinpah's films / Michael Bliss -- The deadly companions revisited / Garner Simmons -- Martyred slaves of time: age, regret, and transcendence in The wild bunch / Michael Bliss -- The ballad of divine retribution / Steven Lloyd -- From The siege of Trencher's farm to Straw dogs: the narrative brilliance of Sam Peckinpah / Michael Sragow -- The recutting of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: ethical problems in film restoration / Stephen Prince -- The authentic death and contentious afterlife of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: the several versions of Peckinpah's last western / Paul Seydor -- Human striving, human strife: Sam Peckinpah and the journey of the soul / Cordell Strug -- Peckinpah's last testament: The Osterman weekend / Tony Williams -- Dawn and dusk / Gerard Camy ; translated by Jean-Paul Gabert.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780809331079 (electronic bk.)




Peckinpah, Sam, 1925-1984 --Criticism and interpretation.


Electronic books.

PN1998.3.P43 / P46 2012

791.4302/33092