Screening violence
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Screening violence
(Rutgers depth of field series)
Rutgers University Press, c2000
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: cloth ISBN 9780813528175
Description
Graphic cinematic violence is a magnet for controversy. From passionate defences to outraged protests, theories abound concerning this feature of modern film: is it art or exploitation, dangerous or liberating? This volume provides an examination of the history, merits and effects of cinematic "ultraviolence". Movie reviewers, cinematographers, film scholars, psycologists and sociologists all contribute essays exploring topics such as: the origins and innovations of film violence and attempts to regulate it; Hollywood's production code and the evolution of the ratings system; the explosion of screen violence following the 1967 releases of "Bonnie and Clyde" and "The Dirty Dozen", and the lasting effects of these landmark films; the aesthetics of increasingly graphic screen violence; the implications of our growing desensitization to murder and mayhem, from "The Wild Bunch" to "The Terminator".
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: pbk ISBN 9780813528182
Description
Graphic cinematic violence is a magnet for controversy. From passionate defenses to outraged protests, theories abound concerning this defining feature of modern film: Is it art or exploitation, dangerous or liberating?
Screening Violence provides an even-handed examination of the history, merits, and effects of cinematic "ultraviolence." Movie reviewers, cinematographers, film scholars, psychologists, and sociologists all contribute essays exploring topics such as:
* the origins and innovations of film violence and attempts to regulate it
(from Hollywood's Production Code to the evolution of the ratings system)
* the explosion of screen violence following the 1967 releases of Bonnie and Clyde and The Dirty Dozen, and the lasting effects of those landmark films
* the aesthetics of increasingly graphic screen violence
* the implications of our growing desensitization to murder and mayhem, from The Wild Bunch to The Terminator
Table of Contents
Graphic Violence in the Cinema: Origins, Aesthetic Design, and Social Effects
The Historical Context of Ultraviolence -
The Thin Red Line
Movies to Kill People By
Another Smash at Violence
Crowther Crowther's `Bonnie'-Brook: Rap at Violence Stirs Brouhaha
Statement by Jack Valenti, MPAA President, before the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence
The Aesthetics of Ultraviolence -
Bang Bang Bang Bang, Ad Naseum
Death and Its Details
Violence: The Strong and the Weak
The Violent Dance: A Personal Memoir of Death in the Movies
Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film
The Aesthetic of Slow-Motion Violence in the Films of Sam Peckinpah
The Effects of Ultraviolence -
Some Effects of Thoughts on Anti- and Prosocial Influences of Media Events: A Cognitive-Neoassociation Analysis
Mass Media Effects on Violent Behavior
Contributors
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"