1st 2024 290pp Spectacular Optical trade paperback. Illustrated. NM.
 
This special edition includes a bookmark and a set of playing cards with the court cards depicted as characters from the film. Janisse investigates the themes of obsession, competition, mobility and nobility that dominate the hyper-masculine world of Monte Hellman’s existential and controversial film, Cockfighter (1974), based on the 1962 novel by crime writer Charles Willeford (Miami Blues). Includes interviews with director Monte Hellman, producer Roger Corman and several surviving cast and crew members.