Violent screen : a critic's 13 years on the front lines of movie mayhem / by Stephen Hunter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunter, Stephen, 1946-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence in motion pictures.

Motion pictures.

Violence.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection)

Physical Description:

xxii, 390 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm

Other Title:

Critic's 13 years on the front lines of movie mayhem

Place of Publication:

[New York, New York] : [Published by Dell Publishing, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.], [1997.]

Summary:

Baltimore Sun film critic Stephen Hunter is an unrivaled master of his craft. This extraordinary collection includes the best of Hunter's movie reviews, taking aim at the 100 most important (or notorious) violent films released since 1982. With an incisive, machine-gun style of writing, Hunter pulls no punches when he bashes Blue Velvet, Tombstone, and Legends of the Fall. And he doesn't hold back in his praise of The Wild Bunch, GoodFellas, and Reservoir Dogs. Commenting on movies and society, Tarantino, Stone, and Peckinpah, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sly Stallone, and Glenn Close, Hunter cuts right to the bone in exposing our flaws, fantasies, and flat-out love affair with blood and gore. His reviews are classics, and this collection is like a straight shot of pure adrenaline -- an electrifying jolt of truth and insight no moviegoer can ignore.

Contents:

Film noir: "All hail sleaze and evil"

The outlaw life: "Sex and death entwined in style"

Sexual obsession: "A mad yin-yang of fear and desire"

"True" criminals: "Not exactly Rhodes scholars to begin with"

Horror: "In the moist and ferny jungle of the id"

Wise guys: "Can the family that slays together stay together?"

Cops-r-us: "A lot of wrecked flesh around"

Action adventure: "The myth of masculine force"

The wild, wild west: "Death comes all at once, and how!"

The future: "Smiling through the apocalypse"

War: "The charisma of brutality"

Race in America: "Rage, ambiuity and native ugliness"

Domestic violence: "When love has fled"

No exit: "Lost in hell or some suburb thereof"

Late developments: "Slap another Maverick on my Hornet. I've got aliens to nuke!"

Epilogue.

Notes:

"Delta Trade Paperbacks."

"Reprinted b arrangement with The Bancroft Press."

"January 1997."

Other Format:

Online version: Hunter, Stephen, 1946- Violent screen.

ISBN:

0385316526 :

9780385316521

OCLC:

36293089