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.
- ISBN10 1906660328
- ISBN13 9781906660321
- Publish Date 17 January 2012 (first published 13 December 2011)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Wallflower Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 128
- Language English