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violence aesthetics

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Sam Peckinpah

American filmmaker who directed The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs, and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia — and who revolutionized the aesthetics of violence in American cinema through slow-motion death sequences — while maintaining a reputation as a difficult, alcoholic genius.

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