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Screening Violence /
Graphic cinematic violence is a magnet for controversy. From passionate defenses to outraged protests, theories abound concerning this defining feature of modern film: Is it art or exploitation, dangerous or liberating? Screening Violence provides an even-handed examination of the history, merits, a...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
2000.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Graphic cinematic violence is a magnet for controversy. From passionate defenses to outraged protests, theories abound concerning this defining feature of modern film: Is it art or exploitation, dangerous or liberating? Screening Violence provides an even-handed examination of the history, merits, and effects of cinematic ?ultraviolence.? Movie reviewers, cinematographers, film scholars, psychologists, and sociologists all contribute essays exploring topics such as: · the origins and innovations of film violence and attempts to regulate it (from Hollywood{u2019}s Production Code to the evolution of the ratings system) · the explosion of screen violence following the 1967 releases of Bonnie and Clyde and The Dirty Dozen, and the lasting effects of those landmark films · the aesthetics of increasingly graphic screen violence · the implications of our growing desensitization to murder and mayhem, from The Wild Bunch to The Terminator. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (288 pages): illustrations ; |
| ISBN: | 9780813528182 |