Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde:

(Re)Making History

Visions of Eight (1973) Night Moves (1975) The Missouri Breaks (1976) Four Friends (1981) Target (1985) Dead of Winter (1987) Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989) The Portrait (1993) Inside (1996)

Arthur Penn’s Filmography

Stage, television and film director Kennedy debates European style Theme: young, erratic outsider

turning to violence after being discarded by a callous establishment

Arthur Penn

Arthur Penn

Stage, television and film director Kennedy debates Theme: Young, erratic outsider

turning to violence after being discarded by a callous establishment

Style: European

Arthur Penn

(David Kehr of the New York Times)

Homage

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

CAST

Warren Beatty as Clyde Barrow Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker Michael J. Pollard as C.W. Moss Gene Hackman as Buck Barrow Estelle Parsons as Blanche Barrow Denver Pyle as Frank Hamer Dub Taylor as Ivan Moss Gene Wilder as Eugene Grizzard Evans Evans as Velma Davis Mabel Cavitt as Mrs. Parker

CREW

Burnett Guffey—CinematographyDede Allen—EditingTheadora Van Runkle—CostumesDean Tavoularis—Set DecorationCharles Strouse—Original MusicWarren Beatty—Producer

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Zeitgeist

Violence

History

Clyde Barro

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(Re)Making History?

Adaptation or Intertextuality