New Hollywood violence
By: edited by Steven Jay Schneider.
Contributors: Schneider, Steven Jay, 1974-
Series: Inside popular film
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Violence in motion pictures.; Motion pictures -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The "film violence" trope : new Hollywood, "the sixties," and the politics of history / J. David Slocum; title: Hitchcock and the dramaturgy of screen violence / Murray Pomerance; title: Violence redux / Martin Barker; title: The big impossible : action-adventure's appeal to adolescent boys / Theresa Webb and Nick Browne; title: Aristotle v. the action film / Thomas Leitch; title: "Killingly funny" : mixing modalities in new Hollywood's comedy-with-violence / Geoff King; title: Killing in style : the aestheticization of violence in Donald Cammell's White of the eye / Steven Jay Schneider; title: Terrence Malick's war film sutra : meditating on The thin red line / Fred Pfeil; title: From homeboy to Baby boy : masculinity and violence in the films of John Singleton / Paula J. Massood; title: "Once upon the time there were three little girls..." : girls, violence, and Charlie's angels / Jacinda Read; title: Playing with fire : women, art, and danger in American movies of the 1980s / Susan Felleman; title: From "blood auteurism" to the violence of pornography : Sam Peckinpah and Oliver Stone / Sylvia Chong; title: "Too much red meat!" / David Tetzlaff; title: Tarantino's deadly homosocial / Todd Onderdonk; title: Fight club and the political (im)potence of consumer era revolt / Ken Windrum.