Savage Pastimes
Subtitle: A Cultural History of Violent Entertainment
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: February 10, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780312282769
Subjects: Media Studies; Violence in Society; Social Science; Sociology; Social History; Social Science / Violence in Society; Popular Culture - General; History; Mass media; United States; Violence in mass media
First sentence: Given the subject of this book-the perennial exploitation of graphic, "gratuitous" violence in pop entertainment-it may seem odd to begin with an epigraph from a literary classic whose most savage sequence is an epic battle between two ant colonies, and whose author expresses nothing but the most lofty contempt for the mindless ephemera of American culture.