Civilized violence
Subtitle: subjectivity, gender and popular cinema
By: by David Hansen-Miller
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Company
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781409412588; 9781409412595
Subjects: Psychic trauma in motion pictures; Violence in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: From scaffold to cinema : violence as a force of subjection and subjectivation; title: Violence and clinical authority in "the aetiology of hysteria" and The cabinet of Dr. Caligari; title: Violence and the passage from responsibility to desire in The sheik; title: The death of popular sovereignty in Once upon a time in the west; title: Deliverance and its uses : subjectivity, violence and nervous laughter; title: Conclusion : gender and pervasive violence.