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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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.