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050 1 4 _aPN 1995.9
_bV795 2001
082 0 0 _a791.43
245 0 0 _aViolence and American cinema /
_cedited by J. David Slocum.
260 _aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_c2001.
300 _aviii, 311 p. ;
_c24 cm.
440 0 _aAFI film readers
500 _aThis latest volume in our successful AFI Film Readers series analyzes violence, examining its nature, its effects, and its cinematic and social meaning.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aIntroduction : 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.
650 0 _aViolence in motion pictures.
650 0 _aMotion pictures
_zUnited States.
650 4 _aViolencia en el cine.
650 4 _aImágenes en movimiento.
700 1 _aSlocum, J. David
_q(John David)
856 4 1 _3Table of contents only
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856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0651/00038265-d.html
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