| Description |
viii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Rutgers depth of field series |
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Rutgers depth of field series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Graphic violence in the cinema : origins, aesthetic design, and social effects / Stephen Prince -- The thin red line / Joseph Morgenstern -- Movies to kill people by ; Another smash at violence / Bosley Crowther -- Crowther's 'Bonnie'-brook : rap at violence stirs brouhaha / Ronald Gold -- Statement by Jack Valenti, MPAA president, before the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence -- Bang bang bang bang, ad nauseum / John Bailey -- Death and its details / David Thomson -- Violence : the strong and the weak / Devin McKinney -- The violent dance : a personal memoir of death in the movies / Vivian C. Sobchack -- Her body, himself : gender in the slasher film / Carol J. Clover -- The aesthetic of slow-motion violence in the films of Sam Peckinpah / Stephen Prince -- Some effects of thoughts on anti- and prosocial influences of media events : a cognitive-neoassociation analysis / Leonard Berkowitz -- Mass media effects on violent behavior / Richard B. Felson. |
| Subject |
Violence in motion pictures.
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| Added Author |
Prince, Stephen, 1955-2020
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| ISBN |
0813528178 cloth |
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9780813528175 cloth |
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0813528186 paperback |
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9780813528182 paperback |
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