Violence and mediation in contemporary culture
By: edited by Ronald Bogue and Marcel Cornis-Pope.
Contributors: Bogue, Ronald, 1948-; Cornis-Pope, Marcel.
Series: SUNY series, the margins of literature
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Popular culture -- History -- 20th century.; Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Violence in literature.; Violence in mass media.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : paradigms of conflict and mediation in literary and cultural imagination / Ronald Bogue and Marcel Cornis-Pope; title: The melancholy object of consumption / Stanley Corngold; title: On wounding : windows, screens, and desire / Jerry Herron; title: The last days of Arnold Schwarzenegger / Albert Liu; title: The Jew as woman's symptom : Kathlyn Bigelow's conflictive representation of feminine power / Elisabeth Bronfen; title: Shattered hopes : on Blue velvet / Susan Derwin; title: Murder and mystery Mormon style : violence and mediation in American popular culture / Terryl Givens; title: Revolution : hope without future or future without hope / Tonglin Lu; title: What is mimetic desire? / Paisley Livingston; title: Murder as play : Conrad Aiken's King Coffin / Mihai Spariosu; title: Contest vs. mediation : models of discursive power in innovative fiction / Marcel Cornis-Pope.