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Violence in American popular culture / David Schmid, editor ; foreword by Harold Schechter.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2015]Description: 2 volumes ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781440832055 (print : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 810.9/3552 23
LOC classification:
  • P96.V52 U675 2015
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Reference book Reference book NMC Library Reference P96 .V52 U675 2015 V.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not for loan 33039001360691
Reference book Reference book NMC Library Reference P96 .V52 U675 2015 V.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not for loan 33039001385680

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.

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