Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

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by Ian Cooper

Type

Studies

Subject

One Film > Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Keywords

Sam Peckinpah

Publishing date

2011

Publisher

Wallflower Press

Collection

Cultographies

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 128 pages
4 ½ x 7 inches (11.5 x 18 cm)

ISBN

978-1-906660-32-1

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Book Presentation:
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.

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

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