American cinema has always been violent, and never more than now: exploding heads, buses that blow up if they stop, leaking ocean liners, racial attacks, and general mayhem. From slapstick's comic violence to film noir, from the silents to Tarantino, violence has been part of America on screen. Yet violence is traditionally a secondary concern of film criticism. This latest 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.
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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, comic violence, cinematic violence, outlaw couple, gangster pictures, comic exuberance, final massacre, violent representations, holocaust film, leo charney, screen violence, audience suspense, richard maltby, woman battering, marsha kinder, wild bunch, dramatic film Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Chow Yun-Fat, United States, Los Angeles, Production Code, Hong Kong, Cry Freedom, The Great Train Robbery, Clockwork Orange, Indiana University Press, University of California Press, David Bordwell, Howard Hawks, Little Caesar, Natural Born Killers, Warner Bros, Clint Eastwood, Jackie Chan, Oliver Stone, Oxford University Press, Raging Bull, Schindler's List, University of Chicago Press, Duke University Press, John Woo 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, comic violence, cinematic violence, outlaw couple, gangster pictures, comic exuberance, final massacre, violent representations, holocaust film, leo charney, screen violence, audience suspense, richard maltby, woman battering, marsha kinder, wild bunch, dramatic film Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Chow Yun-Fat, United States, Los Angeles, Production Code, Hong Kong, Cry Freedom, The Great Train Robbery, Clockwork Orange, Indiana University Press, University of California Press, David Bordwell, Howard Hawks, Little Caesar, Natural Born Killers, Warner Bros, Clint Eastwood, Jackie Chan, Oliver Stone, Oxford University Press, Raging Bull, Schindler's List, University of Chicago Press, Duke University Press, John Woo New!
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- Violence and the Sacred by René Girard on 6 pages
- Reservoir Dogs: The Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino on 4 pages
- Mythologies of Violence in Postmodern Media (Contemporary Film and Television Series) by Christopher Sharrett in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 207
- Cry Freedom by Richard Attenborough on page 251, page 252, and page 262
- The Birth of a Nation: D. W. Griffith, director (Rutgers Films in Print) by Robert Lang in Front Matter, page 39, and page 221
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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)
- Law's Moving Image (Glasshouse S.) by Leslie Moran in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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