Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-906660-32-1
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 108 mm x 175 mm, Gewicht: 125 g

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

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: That Title!1. 'You guys are definitely on my shit list': Production, Promotion, Initial Reception2. 'There's nothing sacred about a hole in the ground or the man that's in it. Or you. Or me': Alfredo Garcia's Reputation3. 'Don't look at me with those goddamn fuckin' eyes': Alcohol Cinema4. 'You too are wrong. Dead wrong': Placing AlfredoNotesBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

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