Violence and American cinema /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2001.
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| Series: | AFI film readers.
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Table of 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.