Description
Book Synopsis'New Hollywood violence' is a groundbreaking collection of essays devoted to an interrogation of various aspects, dimensions and issues - historical, conceptual, empirical, aesthetic, cultural and ideological - relating to the depiction of violence in what has come to be known as New Hollywood filmmaking.
Table of ContentsList of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Introduction - Steven Jay Schneider
Preface - Thomas Schatz
I Surveys and schemas
1. The 'film violence' trope: New Hollywood, 'the sixties', and the politics of history - J. David Slocum
2. Hitchcock and the dramaturgy of screen violence - Murray Pomerance
3. Violence redux - Martin Barker
4. The big impossible: Action-adventure's appeal to adolescent boys - Theresa Webb and Nick Browne
II Spectacle and style
5. Aristotle v. the action film - Thomas Leitch
6. 'Killingly funny': Mixing modalities in New Hollywood's comedy-with-violence - Geoff King
7. Killing in style: The aestheticization of violence in Donald Cammell's 'White of the Eye' - Steven Jay Schneider
8. Terrence Malick's war film sutra: Meditating on 'The Thin Red Line' - Fred Pheil
III Race and Gender
9. From homeboy to 'Baby Boy': Masculinity and violence in the films of John Singleton - Paula J. Massood
10. 'Once upon a time there were three little girls…': Girls, violence and 'Charlie's Angels' - Jacinda Read
11. Playing with fire: Women, art and danger in American movies of the 1980s - Susan Felleman
IV Politics and ideology
12. From 'blood auteurism' to the violence of pornography: Sam Peckinpah and Oliver Stone - Sylvia Chong
13. 'Too much red meat!' - David Tetzlaff
14. Tarantino's deadly homosocial - Todd Onderdonk
15. 'Fight Club' and the political (im)potence of consumer era revolt - Ken Windrum
Afterward - Stephen Prince
Notes
Index
