ENGLISH

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

By Ian Cooper

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9781906660321
ASIN
B008O7CU6I
Google Books ID
AXuAGovLRhoC
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2216919 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2024-12-10 19:02:02

Description

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.

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