Violence and American cinema / edited by J. David Slocum.

Other author Slocum, J. David (John David)
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, 2001.
Descriptionviii, 311 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesAFI film readers
AFI film readers. ^A253893
Contents Introduction : violence and American cinema : notes for an investigation / J. David Slocum -- Violence and film / William Rothman -- The violence of a perfect moment / Leo Charney -- Violence American style : the narrative orchestration of violent attractions / Marsha Kinder -- "Clean, dependable slapstick" : comic violence and the emergence of classical Hollywood cinema / Peter Kramer -- The spectacle of criminality / Richard Maltby -- Murder's tongue : identity, death, and the city in film noir / Paul Archer -- Violence in the film western / Lee Clark Mitchell -- Passion and acceleration : generic change in the action film / Rikke Schubart -- Black violence as cinema : from cheap thrills to historical agonies / Ed Guerrero -- Documenting domestic violence in American films / Phyllis Frus -- Splitting the difference : global identity politics and the representation of torture in the counterhistorical dramatic film / Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg -- Holocaust film criticism and the politics of Judeo-Christian phenomenology / Terri Ginsberb.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 00038265
ISBN0415928095 (alk. paper)
ISBN0415928109 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks PN1995.9.V5 V56 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold