Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

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Acknowledgements; Introduction: That Title!; 1) 'You guys are definitely on my shit list': Production, Promotion, Initial Reception; 2) 'Theres nothing sacred about a hole in the ground or the man thats in it. Or you. Or me': Alfredo Garcia's Reputation; 3) 'Dont look at me with those goddamn fuckineyes': Alcohol Cinema; 4) 'You too are wrong. Dead wrong': Placing Alfredo; Notes; Bibliography; Index.;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 Peckinpahs notorious work took a critical and commercial nosedive, but in later years, the work was heralded as a demented masterpiece & mdash;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 aut. Acknowledgements Introduction: That Title! 1) 'You guys are definitely on my shit list': Production, Promotion, Initial Reception 2) 'Theres nothing sacred about a hole in the ground or the man thats in it. Or you. Or me': Alfredo Garcia's Reputation 3) 'Dont look at me with those goddamn fuckineyes': Alcohol Cinema 4) 'You too are wrong. Dead wrong': Placing Alfredo Notes Bibliography Index.