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Savage cinema : Sam Peckinpah and the rise of ultraviolent movies

Author: Stephen Prince
Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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"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.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Prince, Stephen, 1955-
Savage cinema.
Austin : University of Texas Press, 1998
(OCoLC)606973999
Named Person: Sam Peckinpah; Sam Peckinpah; Sam Peckinpah; Sam Peckinpah
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Stephen Prince
ISBN: 0292765827 9780292765825 0292765819 9780292765818
OCLC Number: 37910497
Description: xx, 282 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: 1. Peckinpah and the 1960s --
2. Aestheticizing violence --
3. Melancholy and mortality --
4. Interrogating violence --
5. A disputed legacy.
Responsibility: by Stephen Prince.
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"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.

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