Violence and American cinema / 
edited by J. David Slocum. 
 - New York :  Routledge,  2001. 
 - viii, 311 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - AFI film readers .
<br/><br/> This latest volume in our successful AFI Film Readers series analyzes violence, examining its nature, its effects, and its cinematic and social meaning. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415928095 (alk. paper) 0415928109 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>00038265  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Violence in motion pictures.<br/>Motion pictures--United States.<br/>Violencia en el cine.<br/>Imágenes en movimiento.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 1995.9  / V795 2001 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.43