New Hollywood Violence

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.

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

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

Afterword

Stephen Prince

318

(5)

Index

323

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New Hollywood Violence

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