About This Volume / Rebecca Martin -- On Bonnie and Clyde: Still and Moving Images/ Rebecca Martin -- Biography of Arthur Penn/ Rebecca Martin -- "Something's happening here": Bonnie and Clyde and the Sixties/ Bruce Campbell -- "As pointless as it is lacking in taste": The Reception and Re-Reception of Bonnie and Clyde/ Matthew Ducca & Rebecca Martin -- Outlaw Woman/ Impotent Men: Gender Subversion in Bonnie and Clyde/ Matthew Ducca -- "You've heard the story of Jesse James": Bonnie and Clyde and the Gangster Film/ Alexander Davis -- "We rob banks": Cinematic Thievery in Bonnie and Clyde/ Richard L. Edwards -- Bonnie and Clyde as Counterculture Gangster Film: Reimagining Classic Gangster Pictures and Film Noir/ Sheri Chinen Biesen -- Youth Gone Wild?: Bonnie and Clyde and the American (Counter) Culture of the Sixties/ Caroline Langhorst -- Impotence/ Homoeroticism/ and Hysteria: Gender and Sexuality in Bonnie and Clyde and the Cinema of Arthur Penn/ Joseph Paul Moser -- What Once Was or What May Never Have Been: En/De/Re Coding (Outlaw) Masculinity/ Robert Mundy & Bryan DeSousa -- " ...Just shot the devil out of them": Images of the Deaths of Bonnie and Clyde/ Douglas C. MacLeod Jr. -- She Is a Peach; He Is a Dandy: Style as Longing in Bonnie and Clyde/ Elena Trencheva -- Overhearing the Past in a Happening Present: Bonnie and Clyde's Radical Soundtrack/ Daniel Bishop -- Bonnie and Clyde in the Charts/ Martin Carter. Cast & Credits -- Awards & Honors -- Chronology of Director's Life -- Director's Filmography -- Bibliography -- About the Editor -- Contributors.
Summary:
This collection of essays will be of interest to a wide range of readers, both those who are familiar with Arthur Penn's controversial and influential film, Bonnie and Clyde (1967), and those who are not, but who want to explore a film that is emblematic of its violent and unsettled time. There are many ways into the subject and readers will find out that this group of essays can facilitate any number of them....The coverage offered here is both broad and deep and will provide a range of contemporary scholarly approaches to the subject, as well as essential background and context. -- About this volume (p. vii)
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