The scene of violence

The scene of violence: cinema, crime, affect

by Young, Alison

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"In the contemporary fascination with images of crime, violence gets under our skin and keeps us enthralled. The Scene of Violence explores the spectator's encounter with the cinematic scene of violence - rape and revenge, homicide and serial killing, torture and terrorism. Providing a detailed reading of both classical and contemporary films - for example, Kill Bill, Blue Velvet, Reservoir Dogs, The Matrix, Psycho, The Accused, Elephant, Seven, Thelma & Louise, United 93, Zodiac and No Country…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :The scene of violence : cinema, crime, affect / Alison Young.

Summary

"In the contemporary fascination with images of crime, violence gets under our skin and keeps us enthralled. The Scene of Violence explores the spectator's encounter with the cinematic scene of violence - rape and revenge, homicide and serial killing, torture and terrorism. Providing a detailed reading of both classical and contemporary films - for example, Kill Bill, Blue Velvet, Reservoir Dogs, The Matrix, Psycho, The Accused, Elephant, Seven, Thelma & Louise, United 93, Zodiac and No Country for Old Men - Alison Young returns the affective processes of the cinematic image to the study of law, crime and violence. Engaging with legal theory, cultural criminology and film studies, the book unfolds both our attachment to the authority of law and our identification with the illicit. Its original contribution is to bring together the cultural fascination of crime with a nuanced account of what it means to watch cinema. The Scene of Violence shows how the spectator is bound by the laws of film to the judgment of the crime-image."--Page [i].

"A GlassHouse book."

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Routledge-Cavendish
  • Place of Publication:Abingdon
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2010.

The Physical Object

  • Description:x, 185 pages : : photographs ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780415490719, 0415490715, 9780415585088, 0415585082, 9780203880791, 020388079X
  • oclc:ocn311756654
  • LC Classification:PN1995.9.V5
  • Dewey Decimal:791.43/6556

Table of Contents

The crime-image -- Judging the affect of screen violence -- 'Don't you fucking look at me!' : rape and cinematic revenge -- The serial killer's accomplice -- The cinema of disaster : screening 9/11 -- No end to violence?

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Subjects

71.65 criminality as a social problem Cinéma -- Publics Crime films Crime films -- History and criticism Criticism, interpretation, etc Émotions Film -- Motiv -- USA Film -- psykologiska aspekter Filmpsykologi Films criminels -- Histoire et critique Gewalt -- Motiv -- USA Kriminalfilm -- USA Motion picture audiences -- Psychology Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects Movies Public Våld i filmen Våld på film Verbrechen -- Motiv -- USA Violence

Writers

Young, Alison

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