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Language: en
Pages: 350
Authors: Stephen Prince
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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Examines the interplay between the aesthetics and the censorship of violence in classic Hollywood films from 1930 to 1968, the era of the Production Code, when
Transfigurations
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: Asbjørn Grønstad
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

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In many senses, viewers have cut their teeth on the violence in American cinema: from Anthony Perkins slashing Janet Leigh in the most infamous of shower scenes
Violence and American Cinema
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: J. David Slocum
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-13 - Publisher: Routledge

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American cinema has always been violent, and never more so than now: exploding heads, buses that blow up if they stop, racial attacks, and general mayhem. From
The Scene of Violence
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: Alison Young
Categories: History
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A crucial question in the analysis of legal practices concerns the processes of identification with, in and as law – a question of how and by what route law a
Screening Violence 1
Language: en
Pages: 294
Authors: Stephen Prince
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-01-01 - Publisher: A&C Black

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Following the release in 1967 of "Bonnie and Clyde" and "The Dirty Dozen", violence has been seen as a defining feature of the modern film. Is it art or exploit