|aViolence and American cinema /|cedited by J. David Slocum.
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|aNew York :|bRoutledge,|c2001.
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|aviii, 311 p. ;|c24 cm.
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|aAFI film readers
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|aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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|aIntroduction : violence and American cinema : notes for an investigation / J. David Slocum -- Violence and film / William Rothman -- The violence of a perfect moment / Leo Charney -- Violence American style : the narrative orchestration of violent attractions / Marsha Kinder -- "Clean, dependable slapstick" : comic violence and the emergence of classical Hollywood cinema / Peter Kramer -- The spectacle of criminality / Richard Maltby -- Murder's tongue : identity, death, and the city in film noir / Paul Archer -- Violence in the film western / Lee Clark Mitchell -- Passion and acceleration : generic change in the action film / Rikke Schubart -- Black violence as cinema : from cheap thrills to historical agonies / Ed Guerrero -- Documenting domestic violence in American films / Phyllis Frus -- Splitting the difference : global identity politics and the representation of torture in the counterhistorical dramatic film / Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg -- Holocaust film criticism and the politics of Judeo-Christian phenomenology / Terri Ginsberb.
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|aViolence in motion pictures.
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|aMotion pictures|zUnited States.
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|aSlocum, J. David|q(John David)
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|3Table of contents only|uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy042/00038265.html