Sam Peckinpah: 'If They Move ... Kill 'Em!' - Softcover

Weddle, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571178847 ISBN 13: 9780571178841

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 1996

Synopsis

This is the first major biography of Sam Peckinpah and is an attempt to do critical justice to an important contribution to the language of cinema as it spins the tale of Peckinpah's dramatic, overcharged life and the turbulent times through which he moved.

Peckinpah was both a hopeless romantic and a grim nihilist, a film-maker who defined his era as much as he was shaped by it. Rising to prominence in the social and political upheavals of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Peckinpah and his generation of directors - Stanley Kubrick, Arthur Penn and Robert Altman - broke with convention and turned the traditional genres of Western, science fiction, war and detective movies inside out. No other era in Hollywood has matched it for sheer audacity and originality, and no one has cut a wider path through that time than Sam Peckinpah.

About this title

Synopsis

A biography of the director of films such as "The Wild Bunch", "Pat Garrett and Billie the Kid" and "Ride the High Country". The book provides an account of Sam Peckinpah's eventful life and times.

Edition details

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571178847
• ISBN 13: 9780571178841
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 600