Cooper Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-50207-8
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 128 Seiten

Reihe: Cultographies

In 1974, The Wall Street Journal called this movie "grotesque, sadistic, irrational, obscene, incompetent," while New York Magazine declared it "a catastrophe." Upon its initial release, Sam Peckinpah´s notorious work took a critical and commercial nosedive, but in later years, the work was heralded as a demented masterpiece--a violent, hallucinatory autobiography and a brilliant example of "pure Peckinpah." This study revisits the making of this controversial film, as well as its original reception and subsequent reassessment. It reads the project as an auteur work, a genre film, a confession, and a bizarre self-parody.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cooper, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction: That Title!
1. 'You guys are definitely on my shit list': Production, Promotion, Initial Reception
2. 'There's nothing sacred about a hole in the ground or the man that's in it. Or you. Or me': Alfredo Garcia's Reputation
3. 'Don't look at me with those goddamn fuckin' eyes': Alcohol Cinema
4. 'You too are wrong. Dead wrong': Placing Alfredo
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Cooper is an author, screenwriter, and contributor to the Wallflower Press series of Critical Guides to film directors.