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| Author | : Michael J. Blouin |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2021-07-29 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1793635803 |
In Violence in the Films of Stephen King, contributors analyze the theme of violence in the film adaptations of Stephen King’s work—ranging from the earliest films in the King canonto his most recent iterations—through a variety of lenses. Investigating the diverse and varying roles that violence continues to play as both the level of violence and the gendered depictions of violence have evolved, many of the contributors come to the conclusion that King’s films have grown more violent over time. This book also examines the fine line between necessary violence and sensationalist violence, discussing the complexity of determining what constitutes violence with a narrative and ethical significance versus violence intended solely to titillate, repulse, or otherwise draw an emotional reaction from viewers. Scholars of film studies, horror studies, literary studies, and gender studies will find this book particularly useful.
| Author | : Stephen Prince |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9780813532813 |
Examines the interplay between the aesthetics and the censorship of violence in classic Hollywood films from 1930 to 1968, the era of the Production Code, when filmmakers were required to have their scripts approved before they could start production. A stylistic history of American screen violence that is grounded in industry documentation. [back cover].
| Author | : Eric Lichtenfeld |
| Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 2007-04-27 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9780819568014 |
An authoritative and entertaining history of the action film
| Author | : Joram ten Brink |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2013-01-08 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0231850247 |
Cinema has long shaped not only how mass violence is perceived but also how it is performed. Today, when media coverage is central to the execution of terror campaigns and news anchormen serve as embedded journalists, a critical understanding of how the moving image is implicated in the imaginations and actions of perpetrators and survivors of violence is all the more urgent. If the cinematic image and mass violence are among the defining features of modernity, the former is significantly implicated in the latter, and the nature of this implication is the book's central focus. This book brings together a range of newly commissioned essays and interviews from the world's leading academics and documentary filmmakers, including Ben Anderson, Errol Morris, Harun Farocki, Rithy Phan, Avi Mograbi, Brian Winston, and Michael Chanan. Contributors explore such topics as the tension between remembrance and performance, the function of moving images in the execution of political violence, and nonfiction filmmaking methods that facilitate communities of survivors to respond to, recover, and redeem a history that sought to physically and symbolically annihilate them
| Author | : J. David Slocum |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2013-09-13 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1135204918 |
American cinema has always been violent, and never more so than now: exploding heads, buses that blow up if they stop, racial attacks, and general mayhem. From slapstick's comic violence to film noir, from silent cinema to Tarantino, violence has been an integral part of America on screen. This new volume in a successful series analyzes violence, examining its nature, its effects, and its cinematic and social meaning.
| Author | : Diane L. Shoos |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2017-12-19 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 3319650645 |
This is the first book to critically examine Hollywood films that focus on male partner violence against women. These films include Gaslight, Sleeping with the Enemy, What’s Love Got to Do with It, Dolores Claiborne, Enough, and Safe Haven. Shaped by the contexts of postfeminism, domestic abuse post-awareness, and familiar genre conventions, these films engage in ideological “gaslighting” that reaffirms our preconceived ideas about men as abusers, women as victims, and the racial and class politics of domestic violence. While the films purport to condemn abuse and empower abused women, this study proposes that they tacitly reinforce the very attitudes that we believe we no longer tolerate. Shoos argues that films like these limit not only popular understanding but also social and institutional interventions.
| Author | : Alison Young |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2009-12-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1134008724 |
A crucial question in the analysis of legal practices concerns the processes of identification with, in and as law – a question of how and by what route law achieves its ends. While it is conventional to interpret the practices of law through the institutional sources of the legal tradition, The Scene of Violence considers how law and legal practices figure in the cultural field; and, specifically, in film.
| Author | : David Humbert |
| Publisher | : MSU Press |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2017-05-01 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1628952911 |
Parting ways with the Freudian and Lacanian readings that have dominated recent scholarly understanding of Hitchcock, David Humbert examines the roots of violence in the director’s narratives and finds them not in human sexuality but in mimesis. Through an analysis of seven key films, he argues that Girard’s model of mimetic desire—desire oriented by imitation of and competition with others—best explains a variety of well-recognized themes, including the MacGuffin, the double, the innocent victim, the wrong man, the transfer of guilt, and the scapegoat. This study will appeal not only to Hitchcock fans and film scholars but also to those interested in Freud and Girard and their competing theories of desire.
| Author | : Stephen Prince |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2001-01-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780485300956 |
Following the release in 1967 of "Bonnie and Clyde" and "The Dirty Dozen", violence has been seen as a defining feature of the modern film. Is it art or exploitation? Danger or liberation? This volume provides an exmination of the history and effects of graphic violence on film.
| Author | : Asbjørn Grønstad |
| Publisher | : Amsterdam University Press |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 908964010X |
In many senses, viewers have cut their teeth on the violence in American cinema: from Anthony Perkins slashing Janet Leigh in the most infamous of shower scenes; to the 1970s masterpieces of Martin Scorsese, Sam Peckinpah and Francis Ford Coppola; to our present-day undertakings in imagining global annihilations through terrorism, war, and alien grudges. Transfigurations brings our cultural obsession with film violence into a renewed dialogue with contemporary theory. Grønstad argues that the use of violence in Hollywood films should be understood semiotically rather than viewed realistically; Tranfigurations thus alters both our methodology of reading violence in films and the meanings we assign to them, depicting violence not as a self-contained incident, but as a convoluted network of our own cultural ideologies and beliefs.
