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Increasingly, society questions the connection between violence in entertainment and violence in life. Moralists and censors would reply resoundingly that media violence and social violence are directly linked, but others ask the deeper question: why do people feel the need to create images of violence, and why do the audiences continually watch them? "Blood Poets" ties together the multiple disciplines of psychology, criminology, censorship, and anthropology in this thought-provoking and insightful study of 40 years of American violent cinema. Jake Horsley divides the forty years of his study into two volumes: "Volume 1: American Chaos, From"Touch of Evil" to "The Terminator", and "Volume 2: Millennial Blues, From "Apocalypse Now" to "The Matrix". Horsley raises a new dialogue between scholars and movie buffs as readers struggle to find their own answers to the connection between the need to portray and the need to watch violent films. Horsley writes compellingly about an intriguing subject. "Blood Poets" reads like the best of the movies Horsley examines; mysterious, cryptic, and critical. These volumes aims to provide both a critical overview of the films themselves and a cultural study of the social and psychological factors relating to the demand for screen violence. Students of cinema, filmmakers, screenwriters, movie buffs, critics, film critics, and students of cultural studies will find this text invaluable.
The Blood Poets,Jake Horsley,Scarecrow Press,0810836688,Cinema/Film: Book,Film & Video - General,Film & Video - History & Criticism,Motion pictures,Performing Arts,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,United States,Violence in Society,Violence in motion pictures
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