TY - BOOK AU - Slocum,J.David TI - Violence and American cinema SN - 0415928095 (alk. paper) AV - PN 1995.9 V795 2001 U1 - 791.43 PY - 2001/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Violence in motion pictures KW - Motion pictures KW - United States KW - Violencia en el cine KW - Imágenes en movimiento N1 - This latest volume in our successful AFI Film Readers series analyzes violence, examining its nature, its effects, and its cinematic and social meaning; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy042/00038265.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0651/00038265-d.html ER -