Bonnie & Clyde /

Provides a collection of critical essays on Arthur Penn's controversial and influential film, Bonnie and Clyde.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Martin, Rebecca, 1953 April 17- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ipswich, MA : Amenia, NY : EBSCO Information Services, Incorporated ; Grey House Publishing, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Critical insights.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • About This Volume
  • The Movie and the Director
  • On Bonnie and Clyde: Still and Moving Images
  • Biography of Arthur Penn
  • Critical Contexts
  • "Something's happening here": Bonnie and Clyde and the Sixties
  • "As pointless as it is lacking in taste": The Reception and Re-Reception of Bonnie and Clyde
  • Outlaw Woman, Impotent Men: Gender Subversion in Bonnie and Clyde
  • "You've heard the story of Jesse James": Bonnie and Clyde and the Gangster Film
  • Critical Readings
  • "We rob banks": Cinematic Thievery in Bonnie and Clyde
  • Bonnie and Clyde as Counterculture Gangster Film: Reimagining Classic Gangster Pictures and Film Noir
  • Youth Gone Wild?: Bonnie and Clyde and the American (Counter) Culture of the Sixties
  • Impotence, Homoeroticism, and Hysteria: Gender and Sexuality in Bonnie and Clyde and the Cinema of Arthur Penn
  • What Once Was or What May Never Have Been: En/De/Re Coding (Outlaw) Masculinity
  • "...Just shot the devil out of them": Images of the Deaths of Bonnie and Clyde
  • She Is a Peach; He Is a Dandy: Style as Longing in Bonnie and Clyde
  • Overhearing the Past in a Happening Present: Bonnie and Clyde's Radical Soundtrack
  • Bonnie and Clyde in the Charts
  • Resources
  • Cast and Credits
  • Awards and Honors
  • Chronology of Director's Life
  • Director's Filmography
  • Bibliography
  • About the Editor
  • Contributors
  • Index.