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Preposterous violence : fables of aggression in modern culture / James B. Twitchell.
LIBRA CB358 .T84 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Twitchell, James B., 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--History.
- Popular culture.
- History.
- Amusements--History.
- Amusements.
- Violence in mass media--History.
- Violence in mass media.
- Physical Description:
- 338 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Fables of agression in modern culture.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
- Summary:
- Twitchell begins the story in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when the 'cheap thrills' available to mass audiences included bull-baiting and other blood sports, Punch-and-Judy shows, penny dreadfuls, and the illustrations of William Hogarth.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0195058879
- OCLC:
- 123148164
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