02942nam 2200601Ia 450 991045078260332120200520144314.01-280-47699-097866104769921-84150-926-4(CKB)1000000000338321(EBL)282974(OCoLC)567836965(SSID)ssj0000211015(PQKBManifestationID)11200978(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000211015(PQKBWorkID)10292360(PQKB)10573761(MiAaPQ)EBC282974(Au-PeEL)EBL282974(CaPaEBR)ebr10132120(CaONFJC)MIL47699(OCoLC)68001512(EXLCZ)99100000000033832120050919d2005 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe new-brutality film[electronic resource] race and affect in contemporary Hollywood cinema /Paul GormleyBristol, UK Intellect20051 online resource (222 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84150-119-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-202) and index.Front Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One - Naïve Imitations: Falling Down, the Crisis of the Action-Image and Cynical Realism; Chapter Two - Gangsters and Gangstas: Boyz N the Hood, and the Dangerous Black Body; Chapter Three - Gangsters and Gangstas Part Two: Menace II Society and the Cinema of Rage 1; Chapter Four - Miming Blackness: Reservoir Dogs and 'American Africanism'; Chapter Five - Trashing Whiteness: Pulp Fiction, Se7en, Strange Days and Articulating Affect; Conclusion; Bibliography; Filmography; IndexThe 1990's saw the emergence of a new kind of American cinema, which this book calls the "new brutality film." Violence and race have been at the heart of Hollywood cinema since its birth, but the new brutality film was the first kind of popular American cinema to begin making this relationship explicit. The rise of this cinema coincided with the rebirth of a long neglected strand of film theory, which seeks to unravel the complex relations of affect between the screen and the viewer. This book analyses and connects both of these developments, arguing that films like Falling Down, Reservoir Dogs,Motion picturesSocial aspectsCaliforniaLos AngelesViolence in motion picturesElectronic books.Motion picturesSocial aspectsViolence in motion pictures.791.43655791.436552Gormley Paul1053123MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450782603321The new-brutality film2484839UNINA