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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Mythologies of violence in postmodern media. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c1999 (OCoLC)607252490 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Christopher Sharrett |
| ISBN: | 0814328792 9780814328798 0814327427 9780814327425 |
| OCLC Number: | 40954191 |
| Description: | 453 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | American psycho/sis : the pure products of America go crazy / Barry Keith Grant -- The grayness of darkness : The honeymoon killers and its impact on psychokiller cinema / Martin Rubin -- Serial killers, true crime, and economic performance anxiety / Annalee Newitz -- Jeffrey Dahmer and media cannibalism : the lure and failure of sacrifice / Mark Pizzato -- The politics of apocalypse in the cinema of serial murder / Philip L. Simpson -- Small ceremonies : ritual in Forrest Gump, Natural born killers, Seven, and Follow me home / Jane Caputi -- Raging bully : postmodern violence and masculinity in Raging bull / Frank P. Tomasulo -- I married Rambo : spectacle and melodrama in the Hollywood action film / Mark Gallagher -- Mutilating Mel : martyrdom and masculinity in Braveheart / William Luhr -- Aliens, nomads, mad dogs, and road warriors : tabloid TV and the new face of criminal violence / Elayne Rapping -- Touching scenes and finishing touches : blindness in the slasher film / Susan Crutchfield -- The technology of homicide : constructions of evidence and truth in the American murder film / Ken Morrison -- The trauma is out there : historical disjunctions and the posttraumatic narrative as process in The X-files / Ilsa J. Bick -- Alien/nation : invasions, abductions, and the politics of identity / Lianna McLarty -- Category 3 : sex and violence in postmodern Hong Kong / Julian Stringer -- Knocked around in New Zealand : postcolonialism goes to the movies / Jane Smith -- Woo's most dangerous game : Hard target and neoconservative violence / Tony Williams -- Afterword : sacrificial violence and postmodern ideology / Christopher Sharrett. |
| Series Title: | Contemporary film and television series. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Christopher Sharrett. |
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- Violence in motion pictures.
- Violence on television.
- Violence au cinéma.
- Violence à la télévision.
- Geweld.
- Massamedia.
- Filmkunst.
- Postmodernisme.
- Gewaltdarstellung.
- Film.
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- Violence -- A la télévision.
- Cinéma -- États-Unis.
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