New Hollywood Violence

by Edited by Steven Jay Schneider

• ISBN13: 9780719067228
• ISBN10: 0719067227
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2004-11-27
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

New Hollywood Violenceis a groundbreaking collection of essays devoted to an interrogation of various aspects, dimensions, and depictions of violence in New Hollywood filmmaking. "New Hollywood" refers to the return to genre filmmaking following America's flirtation with European art cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and is characterized by vast production budgets and special effects. Focusing on the motivations, the formal and stylistic qualities and the cultural politics of violence as well as the effects on viewers, the collection is divided into four sections: "Surveys and schemas"; "Spectacle and style"; "Race and gender" and "Politics to ideology". An Afterword by Stephen Prince reflects on the various essays and points the way towards areas of future exploration.

Author Biography

Steven Jay Schneider is a Ph.D. candidate in Cinema Studies at New York University.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Notes on contributors	xi
Preface Steven
Jay Schneider	xiv
Introduction
Thomas Schatz	1	(10)
I Surveys and schemas	11	(90)
1 The "film violence" trope: New Hollywood, "the Sixties," and the politics of history
J. David Slocum	13	(21)
2 Hitchcock and the dramaturgy of screen violence
Murray Pomerance	34	(23)
3 Violence redux
Martin Barker	57	(23)
4 The big impossible: action-adventure's appeal to adolescent boys
Theresa Webb and Nick Browne	80	(21)
II Spectacle and style	101	(82)
5 Aristotle v. the action film
Thomas Leitch	103	(23)
6 "Killingly funny": mixing modalities in New Hollywood's comedy-with-violence
Geoff King	126	(18)
7 Killing in style: the aestheticization of violence in Donald Cammell's White of the Eye
Steven Jay Schneider	144	(21)
8 Terrence Malick's war film sutra: meditating on The Thin Red Line
Fred Pfeil	165	(18)
III Race and gender	183	(64)
9 From homeboy to Baby Boy: masculinity and violence in the films of John Singleton
Paula J. Massood	185	(20)
10 "Once upon the time there were three little girls...": girls, violence, and Charlie's Angels
Jacinda Read	205	(25)
11 Playing with fire: women, art, and danger in American movies of the 1980's
Susan Felleman	230	(17)
IV Politics and idelology	247	(71)
12 From "blood auteurism" to the violence of pornography: Sam Peckinpah and Oliver Stone
Sylvia Chong	249	(20)
13 "Too much red meat!"
David Tetzlaff	269	(17)
14 Tarantino's deadly homosocial
Todd Onderdonk	286	(18)
15 Fight Club and the political (im)potence of consumer era revolt
Ken Windrum	304	(14)
Afterword
Stephen Prince	318	(5)
Index	323