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Addresses topics such as animals and violence, white supremacy, and narratives of the school shooter
Covers medium beyond film and TV, such as video games and digital streaming platforms
Provides international coverage and line-up of contributors
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About this book
The chapters contained in this handbook address key issues concerning the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of violence in film and media. In addition to providing analyses of representations of violence, they also critically discuss the phenomenology of the spectator, images of atrocity in international cinema, affect and documentary, violent video games, digital infrastructures, cruelty in art cinema, and media and state violence, among many other relevant topics. The Palgrave Handbook of Violence in Film and Media updates existing studies dealing with media and violence while vastly expanding the scope of the field.
Representations of violence in film and media are ubiquitous but remain relatively understudied. Too often they are relegated to questions of morality, taste, or aesthetics while judgments about violence can themselves be subjected to moral judgment. Some may question whether objectionable images are worthy of serious scholarly attention at all. While investigating key examples, the chapters in this handbook consider both popular and academic discourses to understand how representations of violence are interpreted and discussed. They propose new approaches and raise novel questions for how we might critically think about this urgent issue within contemporary culture.
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Critical Models
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Histories of Violence in Film and Media
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The Aesthetics of Aggression
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Steve Choe is Associate Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Afterlives: Allegories of Film and Mortality in Early Weimar Germany (2014), Sovereign Violence: Ethics and South Korean Cinema in the New Millennium (2016), ReFocus: The Films of William Friedkin (2021), and is a co-editor of Beyond Imperial Aesthetics: Theories of Art and Politics in East Asia (2019).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Violence in Film and Media
Editors: Steve Choe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05390-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-05389-4Published: 10 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-05392-4Published: 11 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-05390-0Published: 09 November 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 529
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
Topics: Screen Studies, Ethics, Violence and Crime