Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde

Few films in the history of American cinema caused more intense critical discussion and greater emotional debate than Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde. This volume includes freshly-commissioned essays by leading scholars of Arthur Penn's work, as well as contributions from Penn himself and scriptwriter David Newman. They analyze the cultural history, technical brilliance, visual strategies, and violent imagery that marked Bonnie and Clyde as a significant turning point in American film.

List of Contributors

xi

Acknowledgments

xv

Introduction: Arthur Penn's Enduring Gangsters

1

(10)

Lester D. Friedman

Making Waves: The Directing of Bonnie and Clyde

11

(21)

Arthur Penn

What's It Really All About?: Pictures at an Execution

32

(10)

David Newman

``It's Never the Way I Knew Them'': Searching for Bonnie and Clyde

42

(28)

Diane Carson

From ``Fucking Cops!'' to ``Fucking Media!'': Bonnie and Clyde for a Sixties America

70

(31)

Steven Alan Carr

Model Criminals: Visual Style in Bonnie and Clyde

101

(26)

Matthew Bernstein

The Hemorrhaging of American Cinema: Bonnie and Clyde's Legacy of Cinematic Violence

127

(21)

Stephen Prince

Erasure and Taboo: A Queer Reading of Bonnie and Clyde

148

(29)

Liora Moriel

Reviews of Bonnie and Clyde

177

(22)

Bosley Crowther

Pauline Kael

Filmography

199

(4)

Select Bibliography

203

(2)

Index

205

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Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde

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