Violence in American popular culture /
Violence in American popular culture /
David Schmid, editor ; foreword by Harold Schechter.
- 2 volumes ; 25 cm
Includes index.
Volume 1: American History and Violent Popular Culture. Foreword: American Popular Culture?There Will Be Blood -- Introduction: Recovering American Violence -- Chapter One: The Vanishing Trace of Violence in Native American Literature and Film --Chapter Two: The Politics of Pain: Representing the Violence of Slavery in American Popular Culture -- Chapter Three: Natural Laws, Unnatural Violence, and the Psychophysical Experience of the Civil War Generation in America -- Chapter Four: World War II in American Popular Culture, 1945?Present -- Chapter Five: American Dreams and Nightmares: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement -- Chapter Six: Exploring Popular Cultural Narratives of Gender Violence -- Chapter Seven: Vigilant Citizens and Horrific Heroes: Perpetuating the Positive Portrayal of Vigilantes -- Chapter Eight: The Violent Gang in American Popular Culture: From Pirates and Cowboys to Bikers and Gangstas -- Chapter Nine: Fear and Loathing in Suburbia: School Shootings -- Chapter Ten: Fatal Attraction: The Serial Killer in American Popular Culture -- Chapter Eleven: Presidential Violence -- Chapter Twelve: September 11 and Beyond: The Influence of 9/11 on American Film and Television -- Chapter Thirteen: The War on Terror in American Popular Culture. Volume 2: Representations of Violence in Popular Cultural Genres. Foreword: American Popular Culture?There Will Be Blood -- Chapter One: Traversing the Boundaries of Moral Deviance: New England Execution Sermons, 1674?1825 -- Chapter Two: Reading between the Lines: The Penny Press and the Purpose of Making Violence News -- Chapter Three: The Coy, the Graphic, and the Ugly: Violence in Dime Novels -- Chapter Four: ?She Decided to Kill Her Husband?: Housewives in Contemporary American Fictions of Crime -- Chapter Five: Hard-Boiled Detectives and the Roman Noir Tradition -- Chapter Six: Violence, the Production Code, and Film Noir -- Chapter Seven: From Knights to Knights-Errant: The Evolution of Westerns through Portrayals of Violence -- Chapter Eight: Modus Operandi: Continuity and Change in Television Crime Drama at the Forensic Turn -- Chapter Nine: Documenting Murder before In Cold Blood: The 1950s Origins of True-Crime -- Chapter Ten: Capote?s Children: Patterns of Violence in Contemporary American True-Crime Narratives -- Chapter Eleven: ?I?m Not Prepared to Die?: Murdered-Girl Tunes in Appalachia -- Chapter Twelve: AmeriKKKa?s Human Sacrifice: Blackness, Gangsta Rap, and Authentic Villainy -- Chapter Thirteen: ?Violent Lives?: The Representation of Violence in American Comics -- Chapter Fourteen: ?Command and Conquer?: Video Games and Violence.
9781440832055 (print : alk. paper)
2015025368
Violence in popular culture--United States.
Violence in mass media.
Violence--United States.
Mass media and culture--United States.
P96.V52 / U675 2015
810.9/3552
Includes index.
Volume 1: American History and Violent Popular Culture. Foreword: American Popular Culture?There Will Be Blood -- Introduction: Recovering American Violence -- Chapter One: The Vanishing Trace of Violence in Native American Literature and Film --Chapter Two: The Politics of Pain: Representing the Violence of Slavery in American Popular Culture -- Chapter Three: Natural Laws, Unnatural Violence, and the Psychophysical Experience of the Civil War Generation in America -- Chapter Four: World War II in American Popular Culture, 1945?Present -- Chapter Five: American Dreams and Nightmares: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement -- Chapter Six: Exploring Popular Cultural Narratives of Gender Violence -- Chapter Seven: Vigilant Citizens and Horrific Heroes: Perpetuating the Positive Portrayal of Vigilantes -- Chapter Eight: The Violent Gang in American Popular Culture: From Pirates and Cowboys to Bikers and Gangstas -- Chapter Nine: Fear and Loathing in Suburbia: School Shootings -- Chapter Ten: Fatal Attraction: The Serial Killer in American Popular Culture -- Chapter Eleven: Presidential Violence -- Chapter Twelve: September 11 and Beyond: The Influence of 9/11 on American Film and Television -- Chapter Thirteen: The War on Terror in American Popular Culture. Volume 2: Representations of Violence in Popular Cultural Genres. Foreword: American Popular Culture?There Will Be Blood -- Chapter One: Traversing the Boundaries of Moral Deviance: New England Execution Sermons, 1674?1825 -- Chapter Two: Reading between the Lines: The Penny Press and the Purpose of Making Violence News -- Chapter Three: The Coy, the Graphic, and the Ugly: Violence in Dime Novels -- Chapter Four: ?She Decided to Kill Her Husband?: Housewives in Contemporary American Fictions of Crime -- Chapter Five: Hard-Boiled Detectives and the Roman Noir Tradition -- Chapter Six: Violence, the Production Code, and Film Noir -- Chapter Seven: From Knights to Knights-Errant: The Evolution of Westerns through Portrayals of Violence -- Chapter Eight: Modus Operandi: Continuity and Change in Television Crime Drama at the Forensic Turn -- Chapter Nine: Documenting Murder before In Cold Blood: The 1950s Origins of True-Crime -- Chapter Ten: Capote?s Children: Patterns of Violence in Contemporary American True-Crime Narratives -- Chapter Eleven: ?I?m Not Prepared to Die?: Murdered-Girl Tunes in Appalachia -- Chapter Twelve: AmeriKKKa?s Human Sacrifice: Blackness, Gangsta Rap, and Authentic Villainy -- Chapter Thirteen: ?Violent Lives?: The Representation of Violence in American Comics -- Chapter Fourteen: ?Command and Conquer?: Video Games and Violence.
9781440832055 (print : alk. paper)
2015025368
Violence in popular culture--United States.
Violence in mass media.
Violence--United States.
Mass media and culture--United States.
P96.V52 / U675 2015
810.9/3552