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Informationen zum Autor Steven Jay Schneider is a PhD candidate in Cinema Studies at New York University Klappentext '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. Zusammenfassung '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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrationsNotes on contributorsIntroduction - Steven Jay SchneiderPreface - Thomas SchatzI Surveys and schemas1. The 'film violence' trope: New Hollywood, 'the sixties', and the politics of history - J. David Slocum2. Hitchcock and the dramaturgy of screen violence - Murray Pomerance3. Violence redux - Martin Barker4. The big impossible: Action-adventure's appeal to adolescent boys - Theresa Webb and Nick BrowneII Spectacle and style5. Aristotle v. the action film - Thomas Leitch6. 'Killingly funny': Mixing modalities in New Hollywood's comedy-with-violence - Geoff King7. Killing in style: The aestheticization of violence in Donald Cammell's 'White of the Eye' - Steven Jay Schneider8. Terrence Malick's war film sutra: Meditating on 'The Thin Red Line' - Fred PheilIII Race and Gender9. From homeboy to 'Baby Boy': Masculinity and violence in the films of John Singleton - Paula J. Massood10. 'Once upon a time there were three little girls...': Girls, violence and 'Charlie's Angels' - Jacinda Read11. Playing with fire: Women, art and danger in American movies of the 1980s - Susan FellemanIV Politics and ideology12. From 'blood auteurism' to the violence of pornography: Sam Peckinpah and Oliver Stone - Sylvia Chong13. 'Too much red meat!' - David Tetzlaff14. Tarantino's deadly homosocial - Todd Onderdonk15. 'Fight Club' and the political (im)potence of consumer era revolt - Ken WindrumAfterward - Stephen Prince Notes Index...