Cover; Title Page; Contents; Filmography; Introduction: Bloody Sam; Chapter One: Redefining the Western; Chapter Two: The Wild Bunch; Chapter Three: Relocating the Western; Chapter Four: Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid; Chapter Five: Cross of Iron; Chapter Six: The Later Films; Chapter Seven: 'Don't Put Me Down Too Deep'; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index; Copyright.A detailed look at the work of one of America's great film directors. Sam Peckinpah helped to redefine the Western, clearing the board of genre cliches in order to present an intelligent examination of the motivation behind, and effects of, violence. The accusations against Peckinpah for making violent films, both Westerns and non-Westerns, for the sake of it as well as misogyny have become cliches themselves. Like their creator, the men who walk or ride through Peckinpah's films are deep, complex and often flawed. Technical accomplishment and the ability to draw out great preformances from hi.