Who is Sam Peckinpah from Flashback: A Brief History of Film and what is their importance?

Sam Peckinpah was a controversial director in the 1960s. His violent films brought new dimension to the classic Western. Peckinpah was widely criticized for romanticizing violence. His heroes were bad guys that just were not as bad as the rest, and women were sex objects. Peckinpah was renown for adding slow motion to violent scenes, capturing the energy and motion in violence.