| Description |
1 online resource (x, 185 pages) : photographs |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"A GlassHouse book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182) and index. |
| Contents |
The crime-image -- Judging the affect of screen violence -- 'Don't you fucking look at me!' : rape and cinematic revenge -- The serial killer's accomplice -- The cinema of disaster : screening 9/11 -- No end to violence? |
| Summary |
A crucial question in the analysis of legal practices concerns the processes of identification with, in and as law - a question of how and by what route law achieves its ends. This book considers how law and legal practices figure in the cultural field; and, specifically, in film. |
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"In the contemporary fascination with images of crime, violence gets under our skin and keeps us enthralled. The Scene of Violence explores the spectator's encounter with the cinematic scene of violence - rape and revenge, homicide and serial killing, torture and terrorism. Providing a detailed reading of both classical and contemporary films - for example, Kill Bill, Blue Velvet, Reservoir Dogs, The Matrix, Psycho, The Accused, Elephant, Seven, Thelma & Louise, United 93, Zodiac and No Country for Old Men - Alison Young returns the affective processes of the cinematic image to the study of law, crime and violence. Engaging with legal theory, cultural criminology and film studies, the book unfolds both our attachment to the authority of law and our identification with the illicit. Its original contribution is to bring together the cultural fascination of crime with a nuanced account of what it means to watch cinema. The Scene of Violence shows how the spectator is bound by the laws of film to the judgment of the crime-image."--Page [i]. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Violence in motion pictures.
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Violence in motion pictures. |
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Crime films -- History and criticism.
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Crime films. |
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Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects.
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Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects. |
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Motion picture audiences -- Psychology.
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Motion picture audiences -- Psychology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Young, Alison, 1962- Scene of violence. Abingdon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge-Cavendish, 2010 9780415490719 (DLC) 2009026906 (OCoLC)311756654 |
| ISBN |
9780203880791 (electronic book) |
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020388079X (electronic book) |
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9780415490719 (hardback) |
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0415490715 (hardback) |
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9780415585088 (paperback) |
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0415585082 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
9786612443954 |
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