Violent Screen: A Critic's 13 Years on the Front Lines of Movie Mayhem
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AlbakiReads Editorial A Film-Criticism Collection Focused on Screen Violence
A Film-Criticism Collection Focused on Screen Violence
Gathering Stephen Hunter’s writing on roughly one hundred violent films released from 1982 onward, this collection uses individual reviews to examine a broad range of screen genres, including noir, horror, westerns, war films, and action cinema. The selections engage with films associated with directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Oliver Stone, and Sam Peckinpah, alongside star personas including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, and Glenn Close. Beyond verdicts on particular titles, the book connects depictions of bloodshed, sexual obsession, race, and domestic violence with larger questions about popular culture’s fascination with violence.
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Screen violenceFilm criticismPopular cultureGenre cinemaMedia and society
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Book Overview Baltimore Sun film critic Stephen Hunter is an unrivaled master of his craft. This extraordinary collection includes the best of Hunter's...
Baltimore Sun film critic Stephen Hunter is an unrivaled master of his craft. This extraordinary collection includes the best of Hunter's movie reviews, taking aim at one hundred of the most important (or notorious) violent films released since 1982. With an incisive, machine-gun style of writing, Hunter pulls no punches when he bashes Blue Velvet, Tombstone, and Legends of the Fall. And he doesn't hold back in his praise of The Wild Bunch, Goodfellas, and Reservoir Dogs.
Commenting on movies and society, Tarantino, Stone, and Peckinpah, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sly Stallone, and Glenn Close, Hunter cuts right to the bone in exposing our flaws, fantasies, and flat-out love affair with blood and gore. His reviews are classics, and this collection is like a straight shot of pure adrenaline--an electrifying jolt of truth and insight no moviegoer can ignore.
"A virtual laundry list of sex and violence: film noir, outlaws, sexual obsession, horror, westerns, war, action-adventure, race and domestic violence . . . will delight cinaste and casual browser alike."--Library Journal
Commenting on movies and society, Tarantino, Stone, and Peckinpah, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sly Stallone, and Glenn Close, Hunter cuts right to the bone in exposing our flaws, fantasies, and flat-out love affair with blood and gore. His reviews are classics, and this collection is like a straight shot of pure adrenaline--an electrifying jolt of truth and insight no moviegoer can ignore.
"A virtual laundry list of sex and violence: film noir, outlaws, sexual obsession, horror, westerns, war, action-adventure, race and domestic violence . . . will delight cinaste and casual browser alike."--Library Journal
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 416 | Language: English | Publisher: DELTA | ISBN: 0385316526
FormatPaperback
Pages416
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0385316526
EAN9780385316521
PublisherDELTA
Publication Date1996-12-01
Edition1st ptg.
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight1.15 Pounds
Length8.56 Inches
Width5.9 Inches
Height1.02 Inches
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