The scene of violence
Subtitle: cinema, crime, affect
By: Alison Young.
Publisher: Routledge; Routledge-Cavendish
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780415490719
Subjects: Violence in motion pictures; Crime films -- History and criticism; Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects; Motion picture audiences -- Psychology
Description: "In the contemporary fascination with images of crime, violence gets under our skin and keeps us enthralled. The Scene of Violence explores the spectator's encounter with the cinematic scene of violence - rape and revenge, homicide and serial killing, torture and terrorism. Providing a detailed reading of both classical and contemporary films - for example, Kill Bill, Blue Velvet, Reservoir Dogs, The Matrix, Psycho, The Accused, Elephant, Seven, Thelma & Louise, United 93, Zodiac and No Country for Old Men - Alison Young returns the affective processes of the cinematic image to the study of law, crime and violence. Engaging with legal theory, cultural criminology and film studies, the book unfolds both our attachment to the authority of law and our identification with the illicit. Its original contribution is to bring together the cultural fascination of crime with a nuanced account of what it means to watch cinema. The Scene of Violence shows how the spectator is bound by the laws of film to the judgment of the crime-image."--Page [i].

"A GlassHouse book."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The crime-image; title: Judging the affect of screen violence; title: "Don't you fucking look at me!" : rape and cinematic revenge; title: The serial killer's accomplice; title: The cinema of disaster : screening 9/11; title: No end to violence?