Mythologies of violence in postmodern media / edited by Christopher Sharrett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sharrett, Christopher.

Series:

Contemporary film and television series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence in motion pictures.

Violence on television.

Physical Description:

453 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [1999]

Summary:

Violence has been a topic of continued concern within culture and society. Although there have been numerous sociological and historical studies of violence and its origins, there is relatively little systematic analysis of violence within media representation, even as this issue preeminent within public discourse. Mythologies of Violence in Postmodern Media is a comprehensive anthology that examines a number of issues related to violence within the media landscape, using various methodologies to suggest the implications of the increasing obsession with violence for postmodern civilization.

Contents:

American psycho/sis : the pure products of America go crazy / Barry Keith Grant

The grayness of darkness : The honeymoon killers and its impact on psychokiller cinema / Martin Rubin

Serial killers, true crime, and economic performance anxiety / Annalee Newitz

Jeffrey Dahmer and media cannibalism : the lure and failure of sacrifice / Mark Pizzato

The politics of apocalypse in the cinema of serial murder / Philip L. Simpson

Small ceremonies : ritual in Forrest Gump, Natural born killers, Seven, and Follow me home / Jane Caputi

Raging bully : postmodern violence and masculinity in Raging bull / Frank P. Tomasulo

I married Rambo : spectacle and melodrama in the Hollywood action film / Mark Gallagher

Mutilating Mel : martyrdom and masculinity in Braveheart / William Luhr

Aliens, nomads, mad dogs, and road warriors : tabloid TV and the new face of criminal violence / Elayne Rapping

Touching scenes and finishing touches : blindness in the slasher film / Susan Crutchfield

The technology of homicide : constructions of evidence and truth in the American murder film / Ken Morrison

The trauma is out there : historical disjunctions and the posttraumatic narrative as process in The X-files / Ilsa J. Bick

Alien/nation : invasions, abductions, and the politics of identity / Lianna McLarty

Category 3 : sex and violence in postmodern Hong Kong / Julian Stringer

Knocked around in New Zealand : postcolonialism goes to the movies / Jane Smith

Woo's most dangerous game : Hard target and neoconservative violence / Tony Williams

Afterword : sacrificial violence and postmodern ideology / Christopher Sharrett.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-439) and index.

ISBN:

0814328792

0814327427

OCLC:

40954191