Justified Lives: Morality and Narrative in the Films of Sam Peckinpah

by Michael Bliss

In the first book to critically examine each of the fourteen feature films Sam Peckinpah directed during his career, Michael Bliss stresses the persistent moral and structural elements that permeate Peckinpah's work.

By examining the films in great detail, Bliss makes clear the moral framework of temptation and redemption with which Peckinpah was concerned while revealing the director's attention to narrative. Bliss shows that each of Peckinpah's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809318237
• ISBN13: 9780809318230
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"