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Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 Introduction: Violence and American Cinema: Notes for an Investigation 10 Part One: Historicizing Hollywood Violence 44 1. Violence and Film 46 Notes 55 2. The Violence of a Perfect Moment 56 Boom 57 Gone 59 Crash 63 Speed 67 Notes 70 3. Violence American Style: The Narrative Orchestration of Violent Attractions 72 The Cultural Reinscription of The Wild Bunch 73 American NOVA: The Narrative Orchestration of Violent Attractions 77 The Violent Orchestration of Hybridization and Hysteriain Bonnie and Clyde 79 A Futuristic Vision of Violent Representation in A Clockwork Orange 82 Fast-Forward to the Super-NOVA of the 1990s 85 The Spectacle of Violent Subjectivity in Natural Born Killers 86 Pulp Fiction as Database Narrative 90 Muscling in on the Action: Ethnicity and Masculine Violence 94 The Elliptical Verbal Rhythms of Menace II Society 95 Hong Kong’s Choreographed Crossovers to Hollywood 98 Notes 105 Part Two: Revisiting Violent Genres 110 4. “Clean, Dependable Slapstick”: Comic Violence and the Emergence of Classical Hollywood Cinema 112 Executing Comic Violence: Buster, Fatty, and The Butcher

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Author

J. David Slocum (editor)

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780415928090

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, Sports