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PECKINPAH: AN ULTRAVIOLENT ROMANCE

Table of Contents

One Entr’acte

Two The Stranger

Three Mise en Scène

Four Odeur en Scène

Five Fertilization of the Gods

Six The Old Bastard Car Wash

Seven Warlock Heroes

Eight Dollars & Common Cents

Nine Cold Beers at the Lake

Ten They Reinstated Public Executions

Eleven They Grew Chainsaws in the Cornfields

Twelve Drive-In Movie Theater

Thirteen Hog Ripping

Fourteen Walk-a-lator, Etc.

Fifteen First Theory of Ultraviolence

Sixteen Pseudoexistentialism 101

Seventeen Felix Soandso Goes to Work

Eighteen Felix Soandso Goes Home

Nineteen Contes Cruelles

Twenty Second Theory of Ultraviolence

Twenty-One Tanning Saloon

Twenty-Two The Farmer’s Revenge

Twenty-Three Nostalgia for Unruffled Feathers

Twenty-Four The Farmer’s Head

Twenty-Five This Is What Happened Next

Twenty-Six Port-a-John

Twenty-Seven Five Bloodslides

Twenty-Eight A Shoe Store Named Footland

Twenty-Nine Solarized Crow’s Nest POV

Thirty Samson Thataway & the Fuming Garcias

Thirty-One Rape Scene

Thirty-Two Confusion’s Company

Thirty-Three Memento Mori Daguerreotypes

Thirty-Four Monty Python’s “Salad Days” (1971), Directed by Sam Peckinpah

Thirty-Five Third Theory of Ultraviolence

Thirty-Six The Hallucinatory Chemistry of Panic

Thirty-Seven Carjack

Thirty-Eight The Unpicked Brain

Thirty-Nine Gun Fetish

Forty Spigot

Forty-One Bad Grief

Forty-Two Samson: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria

Forty-Three When Gazes Collide

Forty-Four Scene in Stop-Motion Animation

Forty-Five Fourth Theory of Ultraviolence

Forty-Six Meatballs, Coffins, Sociosexual Ferocity & an Apocalypse of Flesh

Forty-Seven “Man Stands Deformed to See His Deformity in Any Other Creature than Himself”

Forty-Eight Felix Soandso Breaks Out of the Clink

Forty-Nine Precious Blood Church

Fifty Rape Scene

Fifty-One The Nature of Rejektion

Fifty-Two Aide Memoire, or, The Boy without a Face

Fifty-Three The Weird Disaster

Fifty-Four Felix Soandso Goes to China Wok

Fifty-Five Revenge Is a Dish that Is Best Served with Shitloads of Gore & with the Antagonist Being Forced to Eat His Own Hand before Getting His Head Hacked Off with a Pair of Fantasy Axes & with Inevitable Residual Feelings of Unsettledness & Helplessness & Fury & Atheism on the Part of the Forlorn Protagonist & in the Aftermath & before the Aftermath Perception Shifts from Cartoon Comedy to Gothic Horror to Pastoral Dystopianism

Fifty-Six Fifth Theory of Ultraviolence

Fifty-Seven Loud Gusts of “Ha!”

Fifty-Eight Autobiography of an Auteur

Fifty-Nine Peckinpah (1925-1984): Age 59