The Gothic Peckinpah

by Tony Williams

This book argues for the importance of Gothic in understanding one of the key elements within the films of Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984). Although occasionally noted in the past, the Gothic has been generally overlooked when most critics consider the work of Sam Peckinpah with the exception of the Freudian based Crucified Heroes (1979) by Terence Butler. This work not only examines the films made after that date, especially the often dismissed The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1802074619
• ISBN13: 9781802074611
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 264 Pages