Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

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.

Author: Ian Cooper
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Published: 12/13/2011
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 6.80h x 4.30w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781906660321
ISBN10: 1906660328
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film | History & Criticism

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