David J. Slocum (ed.)

Violence and American Cinema

Herausgeber: Slocum, J David

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 fisticuffs to film noir, from the silents to Tarantino, violence has been an integral part of American on screen. Although violent media is a hot-button issue for public figures, political and popular, violence is traditionally a secondary concern of film criticism. Ranging from nickelodeons to The Matrix, VIOLENCE AND AMERICAN CINEMA is a pioneering volume that leads the discussion of film violence -- old and new -- to a far-reaching consideration of its nature, its effects, and its cinematic, cultural, and historical meaning.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 154mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780415928106
• ISBN-10: 0415928109
• Artikelnr.: 21940777

Autorenporträt

J. David Slocum is Assistant Dean in the Graduate School for the Arts and Science at New York University, where he teaches cinema studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Violence and American Cinema: Notes for an Investigation, J. David Slocum
I. Historicizing Hollywood Violence
1. Violence and Film, William Rothman
2. The Violence of a Perfect Moment, Leo Charney
3. Violence American Style: The Narrative Orchestration of Violent Attractions, Marsha Kinder
II. Revisiting Violent Genres
4. Clean Dependable Slapstick: Comic Violence and the Emergence of Classical Hollywood Cinema, Peter Kramer
5. The Spectacle of Criminality, Richard Maltby
6. Murder's Tongue: Identity, Death, and the City in Film Noir, Paul Arthur
7. Violence in the Film Western, Lee Clark Mitchell
8. Passion and Acceleration: Generic Change in the Action Film, Rikke Schubart
III. Hollywood Violence and Cultural Politics
9. Black Violence as Cinema: From Cheap Thrills to Historical Agonies, Ed Guerrero
10. Documenting Domestic Violence in American Films, Phyllis Frus
11. Splitting Difference: Global Identity Politics and the Representation of Torture in the Counterhistorical Dramatic Film, Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg
12. Holocaust Film Criticism and the Politics of Judeo-Christian Phenomenology, Terri Ginsberg
Contributors
Index