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The Authentic Death & Contentious Afterlife of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. The Untold Story of Peckinpah's Last Western Film.
Paul Seydor
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Paperback. Paul Seydor, film scholar and editor of the most recent cut of Sam Peckinpah's "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid," offers a comprehensive account of this brilliant director's most controversial film. Num Pages: 456 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 535.
Long before Sam Peckinpah finished shooting his 1973 Western, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, there was open warfare between him and the studio. In this scrupulously researched new book Paul Seydor reconstructs the riveting history of a brilliant director fighting to preserve an artistic vision while wrestling with his own self?destructive demons. Meticulously comparing the film five extant versions, Seydor documents why none is definitive, including the 2005 Special Edition, for which he served as consultant.
Viewing Peckinpah's last Western from a variety of fresh perspectives, Seydor establishes a nearly direct line from the book Garrett wrote after ... Read more
Long before Sam Peckinpah finished shooting his 1973 Western, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, there was open warfare between him and the studio. In this scrupulously researched new book Paul Seydor reconstructs the riveting history of a brilliant director fighting to preserve an artistic vision while wrestling with his own self?destructive demons. Meticulously comparing the film five extant versions, Seydor documents why none is definitive, including the 2005 Special Edition, for which he served as consultant.
Viewing Peckinpah's last Western from a variety of fresh perspectives, Seydor establishes a nearly direct line from the book Garrett wrote after ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810130562
SKU
V9780810130562
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About Paul Seydor
Paul Seydor is an Oscar-nominated film editor and a professor in the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University in California, USA. He is the author of Peckinpah: The Western Films - A Reconsideration (1997).
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