The Palgrave handbook of violence in film and media / / edited by Steve Choe

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (528 pages)
• Disciplina: 623.805
• Soggetto topico: Violence in mass media
• Persona (resp. second.): ChoeSteve
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction: The Ambivalences of Violence -- References -- Critical Models -- Equality in the Face of Violence?-Diverging Paths of Moral Speculation in Violent Fiction -- Enjoying and Questioning Fictional Violence -- Understanding and Relating to Characters -- Two Kinds of Drama -- Understanding The Equalizer16 -- Understanding Those Born Equal -- Simplistic vs. Complex Moral Fantasies -- Para- and Eso-Dramatic Features in The Equalizer and Born Equal -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Violent Corporeality in Cinema -- Painful Violence -- Incapacitating Violence -- Momentous Violence -- Screen Violence -- Othered Corporeality -- Notes -- Works Cited -- The Power of Procedure: Systemic Violence in Popular Narratives About Crime and War -- Introduction: Nothing to See Here -- The Thin Blue Line: Systemic Violence in the Police Procedural -- The Green Machine: Systemic Violence in War Stories -- Habeas Corpus: Agency and the Problem of the Bloody Corpse -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Force, Power, and Control: Functions of Video Game Violence -- Shadow of the Colossus: The Textual Force of Video Game Violence -- Donkey Kong: Violence as a Figuration of Computing Power -- Control: Graphic(s) Violence as the "Outside" -- Note -- References -- White Material: Michael Haneke's Ethics of Violence -- Notes -- References -- Histories of Violence in Film and Media -- "Man's Greatest Catastrophe": Violence in the Films of Cornel Wilde -- From Hollywood Leading Man to Independent Auteur -- Violent Themes -- Wilde's Visual Transgressions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- British Film Censorship in the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Surgical Strikes on Screen: Narrations of Terrorism and Military Cross-Border Violence In Bollywood Cinema. ; Bollywood Cinema and the Nationalist Narrative of Violence -- Imagined Extremities and Border Politics -- Terrorism and Narratives of Violence -- Emotions that Cross Borders: Rationalization of National Violence in Uri -- Aestheticization of Popular Violence and Jingoism -- Violence as a Medium for Political Propaganda -- Conclusion -- References -- Violence in the School Shooting Film -- Violent Media in the School Shooter Film -- Bullying in School Shooter Films -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- When a GIF Becomes a Weapon: The Latent Violence of Technological Standards and Media Infrastructure -- Photosensitive Epilepsy -- The Televisual Condition -- Television Standards and Electrical Infrastructure -- The Frail Universality of Universal Standards -- Neurology and Experimental Film -- Bodies on Display -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- The Aesthetics of Aggression -- Scratching the Surface: For a Reappraisal of Violence in Contemporary French Cinema -- Introduction: Understanding the Violent Image -- Reframing Violence, Rethinking Spectatorship -- Violence and the Female Body -- The Violence of Subjection, the Lure of Smoothness -- The Commodification of the Female Body: "Revenge" and the Violence of Patriarchy -- The Negation of Self: "Dans Ma Peau" and the Violence of a Globalized World -- "Raw": Laying Bare the Violence of Social Structures -- Reinvesting One's Skin: Rethinking Violence as a Mode of Resistance -- Smoothness, Cleanliness, and Femininity in a French Context -- Disrupting the Fetishist Gaze Through Violence -- Breaking the Status Quo: Violence and Self-Empowerment -- More Than Meets the Eye: Understanding the Unfolding of Violence -- Violence and the Disruption of the Commodifying Gaze -- Conclusion: Reappraising the Violent Image -- Notes -- References. ; The Aesthetics of Asymmetrical Warfare: Cinema's Representation of Conflict in the Twenty-First Century -- Forging the Gulf War Aesthetic -- Beyond the Gulf War, the Aesthetics of 21st Century Conflict -- Mediating Violence in a War of Ideas -- Beyond the Gulf War Aesthetic, the New Visibility of Violence -- Bibliography -- The Birth of Naturalist Violence in the Russian Chernukha Film -- Representation of Violence Before Perestroika -- Perestroika in the Soviet Film Industry -- Chernukha as Genre -- Chernukha's Naturalist Violence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Violence Framed: Remediating Images of Racialized Violence in Film -- Introduction: "With Whose Blood Were My Eyes Crafted?" -- Remediating White "Golden Age" Hollywood -- Remediating Lynching Pictures -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Don't Look Now: Ontologies of Off-Screen Violence -- The Horrific Imagination: Frenzy and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre -- Ears and Teeth: The Function of Sound in Reservoir Dogs and American History X -- Off-Screen Deaths in Frenzy, Seven, and No Country for Old Men -- Conclusion -- References -- The Politics and Ethics of Brutal Media -- White and Violent: Political Violence in Twenty-First-Century European Cinema -- The Social Context -- The Cinematic Context -- Paradoxes of Political Violence: The Wave -- Young, Rebellious and Innocent: This is England -- Conclusions -- Works Cited -- Getting Over the Fear of Murder: Video Game Violence and the Ethics of Empowerment in The Last of Us -- Introduction -- Gameplay and Plot of The Last of Us -- "We're Kind of Creating a Female Action Hero… and This is Her Origin Story": Gender in The Last of Us -- Player Activity, Character Agency, and the Acquisition of Violence -- Moral Relativism in The Last of Us -- Empowerment in The Last of Us -- The Last of Us and the Racial Other. ; Heteronormative Subjectification and the Oedipal Drama of The Last of Us -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Unseeable Abuse: The Impossible Act of Visualising Childhood Sexual Abuse in Digital Cultures and Technology -- Introduction: Denying and Defining CSA -- The Digital Campfire: Considering the Myth-Making of Peter Scully and the Dark Web -- 'Like Watching Child Abuse Through a Snow Storm': Understanding the Position of CSA as Non-cinema -- Conclusion -- References -- Re-staging Atrocities in a Post-historical World: Cold War Violence, Mass Amnesia, and the Dialectics of Cinematic Witnessing in Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence -- Introduction -- The Act of Killing: Atrocity, Complicity, and Impunity -- The "Banality of Evil" Re-visioned -- The Look of Silence: Moral Blindness and the Impasses of Testimonies -- Coda: Can the Witnesses Speak? -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Politics and Aesthetics of Violence in the Videos of the Islamic State -- Introduction -- Beheadings -- Other Forms of Executions and the Emergence of the Image-Database -- Victims of the Coalition -- War Operations -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Affected Audiences -- Disgust and the Image: Documentary Film and the Representation of Violent Extremists in Salafistes (2016) -- Salafistes: Critics and Controversy -- Disgusting Images? -- Disgust and Political Community -- Truth and Images of Violence -- Extremism on Screen: Concluding Thoughts -- Note -- Bibliography -- "Does the Dog Die?": Nonhuman Violence and Affective Viewership in American Horror -- Cinematic Affect as Humanist Enterprise -- Audience Affect and the Sacrificial Dog -- Does the Dog Die? is a Human Question-and a Trigger -- The Sacrificial Dog as Horror Trope -- The Dog Does Not Die -- Notes -- References -- Sadistic Laughter: A Case for "Non-ethical" Viewing. ; Introduction: Emotion and Affect -- Vomit as a Confession of the Body -- Well, I Could Laugh, or Be Sick … -- Conclusion: A Framework of Dissonance -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Real violence: Jordan Wolfson, Virtual Reality, and the Privilege of Allegory -- Center of the Artworld: 2017 Whitney Biennial -- "The Most Disturbing, Horrifying Artwork I Have Ever Seen"3 -- Vision & -- Reality -- Art and/as Violence -- Real Real Violence -- Affect, Reality, and Violence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- A Personal Memoir of Death in Animation -- Deathlessness in Classical Hollywood Animation -- What's Opera, Doc? -- Koncert Za Mašinsku Pušku -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Palgrave Handbook of Violence in Film and Media
• ISBN: 9783031053900; 9783031053894
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910629286103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II