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Peckinpah's Women
Mesce, Bill, Jr.
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Description for Peckinpah's Women
Hardback. Peckinpah's Women examines the confluence of factors that worked with, and often against, Peckinpah's cinematic voice to divine a recurring positive theme regarding women in those films that form the heart of his body of work: his period Westerns. Series: The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFB; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
At his peak, from the late 1960s through the early 1970s, Sam Peckinpah was hailed as one of the new masters of the Western film, while simultaneously becoming one of the most controversial American directors of the era. In a time of great social turmoil, Peckinpah's on-screen orchestration of physical and emotional violence drew adamant praise for what some considered fearless realism and vehement criticism for what others called tasteless gore and brutal misogyny. Debate over the violence and sexual themes of Peckinpah's films often eclipsed aesthetic appreciation of his work. A favorite target of 1970s feminist critics, ... Read more
At his peak, from the late 1960s through the early 1970s, Sam Peckinpah was hailed as one of the new masters of the Western film, while simultaneously becoming one of the most controversial American directors of the era. In a time of great social turmoil, Peckinpah's on-screen orchestration of physical and emotional violence drew adamant praise for what some considered fearless realism and vehement criticism for what others called tasteless gore and brutal misogyny. Debate over the violence and sexual themes of Peckinpah's films often eclipsed aesthetic appreciation of his work. A favorite target of 1970s feminist critics, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810840669
SKU
V9780810840669
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About Mesce, Bill, Jr.
Bill Mesce Jr. has worked for pay-TV giant Home Box Office for over 19 years, and is also a produced screenwriter and playwright, as well as a published novelist. His film work includes Road Ends, with Dennis Hopper, and uncredited work on Brian DePalma's Blow Out. His play A Jersey Cantata was named one of the six best plays to ... Read more
Reviews for Peckinpah's Women
...a thoughtful, compelling, and insightful analysis....Peckinpah's films are reappraised in Peckinpah's Women in order to better understand the multitude of conflicting factors that affected one man's silver screen stories and how he told them. Especially recommended reading for those with a strong interest in the history and future of western film studies in general, and the cinematic work of Sam ... Read more