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Bonnie And Clyde And Christy Mahon: Playboys All

1971; University of Toronto Press; Volume: 14; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3138/md.14.2.227

1712-5286

Donna Gerstenberger,

Media, Gender, and Advertising

THE FILM VERSION OF THE STORY OF Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow uses methods explored over a half century ago in John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World. The haunting relationship of the two works is confirmed by audience reaction to the film, which is as uncertain and uncomfortable as audience reaction to The Playboy generally is. The director of the film achieves his effects by handling the material of the film in much the same way as Synge had dramatized his material in his "shocking" 1907 comedy; and the results are the same.