{"id":5177,"date":"2012-04-20T12:56:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T18:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=5177"},"modified":"2012-04-20T12:56:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T18:56:56","slug":"peckinpahs-tragic-westerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2012\/04\/peckinpahs-tragic-westerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Peckinpah\u2019s Tragic Westerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5127\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/john-simons-peckinpah\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2012\/04\/John-Simons-Peckinpah.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"700,1007\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"John Simons&#039; Peckinpah\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2012\/04\/John-Simons-Peckinpah-208x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2012\/04\/John-Simons-Peckinpah.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5127\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/281\/files\/2012\/04\/John-Simons-Peckinpah-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"Peckinpah\u2019s Tragic Westerns cover\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2012\/04\/John-Simons-Peckinpah-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2012\/04\/John-Simons-Peckinpah-624x897.jpg 624w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2012\/04\/John-Simons-Peckinpah.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/>by John Simons, <em>CC Professor of English<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeckinpah\u2019s Tragic Westerns\u201d examines the work of filmmaker Sam Peckinpah and places it within the 2,000-year-old tradition\u00a0of Western tragedy. The tradition, enfolding the Greeks, Shakespeare, and modern tragedians, is represented in Peckinpah\u2019s art in numerous ways, and the fact that he worked in the mode throughout his career distinguishes him from most American film directors. Book jacket comments by producer and director Garner Simmons note that the book \u201cprovides fresh and, at times, profound insights into how and why Peckinpah\u2019s work touches us in such a deep and visceral way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>ISBN-13: 978-0786461332. Published by McFarland; 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by John Simons, CC Professor of English \u201cPeckinpah\u2019s Tragic Westerns\u201d examines the work of filmmaker Sam Peckinpah and places it within the 2,000-year-old tradition\u00a0of Western tragedy. The tradition, enfolding the Greeks, Shakespeare, and modern tragedians, is represented in Peckinpah\u2019s art in numerous ways, and the fact that he worked in the mode throughout his career&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-5177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-april-2012","tag-on-the-bookshelf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}