Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies
by
Stephen Prince
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
More than any other filmmaker, Sam Peckinpah opened the door for graphic violence in movies. In this book, Stephen Prince explains the rise of explicit violence in the American cinema, its social effects, and the relation of contemporary ultraviolence to the radical, humanistic filmmaking that Peckinpah...