Urbana IL: University of Illinois Press, Date: 1997. 1st revised. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 410 pages. The book that re-established Peckinpah's reputation—now thoroughly revised and updated! When critics hailed the 1995 re-release of Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece, The Wild Bunch, it was a recognition of Paul Seydor's earlier claim that this was a milestone in American film, perhaps the most important since Citizen Kane. Peckinpah: The Western Films first appeared in 1980, when the director's reputation was at low ebb. The book helped lead a generation of readers and filmgoers to a full and enduring appreciation of Peckinpah's landmark films, locating his work in the central tradition of American art that goes all the way back to Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville. In addition to a new section on the personal significance of The Wild Bunch to Peckinpah, Seydor has added to this expanded, revised edition a complete account of the successful, but troubled, efforts to get a fully authorized director's cut released. He describes how an initial NC-17 rating of the film by the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings board nearly aborted the entire project. He also adds a great wealth of newly discovered biographical detail that has surfaced since the director's death and includes a new chapter on Noon Wine, credited with bringing Peckinpah's television work to a fitting resolution and preparing his way for The Wild Bunch.This ...

ISBN10: 0252022688, ISBN13: 9780252022685, [publisher: University of Illinois Press, Urbana] Hardcover No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very faint marking to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light creasing to upper edge. 410pp. This volume looks again at Peckinpah's reputation, with the benefit of hindsight since the first edition was published in 1980 and its earlier review of Peckinpah's masterpiece The Wild Bunch. In this volume there is a complete new section on the personal significance of The Wild Bunch to Peckinpah. A scarce book. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 9.25 x 6 inches
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ISBN10: 0252022688, ISBN13: 9780252022685, [publisher: University of Illinois Press] Hardcover Condition: Fine. Pristine. Dust Jacket not clipped, in As New condition. No markings of any kind. // shipped carefully packed in a sturdy box. David Samuel Peckinpah was an American film director and screenwriter. His 1969 Western epic The Wild Bunch received an Academy Award nomination. This volume looks again at Peckinpah's reputation, with the benefit of hindsight since the first edition was published in 1980 and its earlier review of Peckinpah's masterpiece The Wild Bunch. In this volume there is a complete new section on the personal significance of The Wild Bunch to Peckinpah.
[Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1996]

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ISBN10: 0252022688, ISBN13: 9780252022685, [publisher: University of Illinois Press] Hardcover
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ISBN10: 0252022688, ISBN13: 9780252022685, [publisher: University of Illinois Press] Hardcover New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.86
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ISBN10: 0252022688, ISBN13: 9780252022685, [publisher: University of Illinois Press] Hardcover First Edition Signed by Seydor on the title page above his name. Book and jacket have a 1/8 inch soft bruise to front tips. Fine content.
[Palm Desert, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1996]