02959nam 2200613Ia 450 991081736260332120240410132739.01-280-47699-097866104769921-84150-926-4(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(PPN)270961585(EXLCZ)99100000000033832120050919d2005 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe new-brutality film[electronic resource] race and affect in contemporary Hollywood cinema /Paul Gormley1st ed.Bristol, 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 picturesMotion picturesSocial aspectsViolence in motion pictures.791.43655791.436552Gormley Paul1635035MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817362603321The new-brutality film3975593UNINA