Screening Violence - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0813528186 ISBN 13 : 9780813528182

Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2000

Synopsis

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'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

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Stephen Prince is associate professor of communication studies at Virginia Tech. He has written many books on film, including The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa, and Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Film.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rutgers University Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813528186
• ISBN 13: 9780813528182
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Prince Stephen
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible