Table of Contents

1. Sam Peckinpah, savage poet of American cinema Stephen Prince; 2. The Wild Bunch: the screenplay Paul Seydor; 3. Peckinpah the radical: the politics of The Wild Bunch Christopher Sharrett; 4. 'Back off to what?' Enclosure, violence, and capitalism in The Wild Bunch Michael Bliss; 5. Ballistic balletics: styles of violent representation in The Wild Bunch and after David A. Cook; 6. Revisioning the Western code: myth and genre in The Wild Bunch Wheeler Winston Dixon; 7. The Wild Bunch: innovation, retreat, and the unproductive schism David McKinney.

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A collection of essays of Sam Peckinpah's film The Wild Bunch.