This volume in our successful AFI Film Readers series analyzes violence, examining its nature, its effects, and its cinematic and social meaning. Thirteen contributions are organized in three parts: 'Theorizing and Historicizing Hollywood Violence', 'Revisiting Violent Genres' and 'Hollywood Violence and Cultural Politics'.
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...insightful collection of essays... thought-provoking.
–Tom Ryan, The Age
–Tom Ryan, The Age
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J. David Slocum is Assistant Dean in the Graduate School for the Arts and Science at New York University, where he teaches cinema studies.
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America is a less violent place than it used to be (say, five or ten or twenty-five or fifty or a hundred or two hundred years ago). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
contemporary action movies, narrative orchestration, noir violence, violent attractions, film violence, violent comedy, replacement killers, cinematic violence, comic violence, comic exuberance, gangster pictures, outlaw couple, violent representations, final massacre, leo charney, holocaust film, screen violence, audience suspense, woman battering, richard maltby, wild bunch, dramatic film, censor boards, gangster genre, cinema studies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Chow Yun-Fat, United States, Production Code, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Schindler's List, Cry Freedom, Clockwork Orange, Natural Born Killers, The Great Train Robbery, Little Caesar, University of California Press, David Bordwell, Howard Hawks, Indiana University Press, Raging Bull, Warner Bros, Clint Eastwood, Jackie Chan, John Woo, Oliver Stone, Oxford University Press, University of Chicago Press, Duke University Press New!
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America is a less violent place than it used to be (say, five or ten or twenty-five or fifty or a hundred or two hundred years ago). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
contemporary action movies, narrative orchestration, noir violence, violent attractions, film violence, violent comedy, replacement killers, cinematic violence, comic violence, comic exuberance, gangster pictures, outlaw couple, violent representations, final massacre, leo charney, holocaust film, screen violence, audience suspense, woman battering, richard maltby, wild bunch, dramatic film, censor boards, gangster genre, cinema studies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Chow Yun-Fat, United States, Production Code, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Schindler's List, Cry Freedom, Clockwork Orange, Natural Born Killers, The Great Train Robbery, Little Caesar, University of California Press, David Bordwell, Howard Hawks, Indiana University Press, Raging Bull, Warner Bros, Clint Eastwood, Jackie Chan, John Woo, Oliver Stone, Oxford University Press, University of Chicago Press, Duke University Press New!
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- Natural Born Killers: Tie-In by John August on 7 pages
- Reservoir Dogs: The Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino on 4 pages
- Cry Freedom by Richard Attenborough on 4 pages
- The Birth of a Nation: D. W. Griffith, director (Rutgers Films in Print) by Robert Lang in Front Matter, page 3, and page 221
- A Clockwork Orange (Hb) by Kubrick Stanley on page 73, page 74, and page 98
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- The Violent Woman: Femininity, Narrative, And Violence In Contemporary American Cinema (S U N Y Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory) by Hilary Neroni on 9 pages
- Violence and the Media by Cynthia Carter on 5 pages
- Classical Film Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1968 by Stephen Prince on 4 pages
- Media Reception Studies by Janet Staiger in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Terrorism, Media, Liberation (Rutgers Depth of Field Series) by J. David Slocum on page 265, and Back Matter
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