'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.
'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.
Steven Jay Schneider is a PhD candidate in Cinema Studies at New York University
Inhaltsangabe
List 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
List 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
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