Violence in American Popular Culture [2 volumes]
byDavid Schmid, PhD, is associate professor of English at the University at Buffalo.
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This timely collection provides a historical overview of violence in American popular culture from the Puritan era to the present and across a range of media.
• Provides a narrative of the development of violence in American popular culture, illustrating both continuity and change• Combines an overview of each essay's subject matter with in-depth analysis of specific examples
• Features discussion of well-known portrayers of violence, such as film and television, as well as lesser-known sources—for example, murder ballads and Puritan sermons—helping readers place contemporary concerns and examples into a detailed historical context
• Suggests directions for future research and other developments in the field
• Includes a keyword index to enable readers to track continuities across the various essays
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Table of Contents
Violence in American Popular Culture [2 volumes]
Contributors: Schmid, David;Abstract:This timely collection provides a historical overview of violence in American popular culture from the Puritan era to the present and across a range of media.
• Provides a narrative of the development of violence in American popular culture, illustrating both continuity and change• Combines an overview of each essay's subject matter with in-depth analysis of specific examples
• Features discussion of well-known portrayers of violence, such as film and television, as well as lesser-known sources—for example, murder ballads and Puritan sermons—helping readers place contemporary concerns and examples into a detailed historical context
• Suggests directions for future research and other developments in the field
• Includes a keyword index to enable readers to track continuities across the various essays
Editor(s): Schmid, David;SortTitle: violence in american popular culture [2 volumes]Author Info:David SchmideditorDavid Schmid, PhD, is associate professor of English at the University at Buffalo.
eISBN-13: 9781440832062Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440832062.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440832055Imprint: PraegerPages: 672Publication Date: 20151130Table of Contents pages: 1 2
- Cover Cover11
- Volume 1: American History and Violent Popular Culture iii4
- Title iii4
- Copyright iv5
- Contents v6
- Acknowledgments vii8
- Foreword: American Popular Culture—There Will Be Blood ix10
- Introduction: Recovering American Violence xv16
- Chapter One: The Vanishing Trace of Violence in Native American Literature and Film 126
- Chapter Two: The Politics of Pain: Representing the Violence of Slavery in American Popular Culture 2752
- Chapter Three: Natural Laws, Unnatural Violence, and the Psychophysical Experience of the Civil War Generation in America 4570
- Chapter Four: World War II in American Popular Culture, 1945–Present 79104
- Chapter Five: American Dreams and Nightmares: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement 107132
- Chapter Six: Exploring Popular Cultural Narratives of Gender Violence 131156
- Chapter Seven: Vigilant Citizens and Horrific Heroes: Perpetuating the Positive Portrayal of Vigilantes 149174
- Chapter Eight: The Violent Gang in American Popular Culture: From Pirates and Cowboys to Bikers and Gangstas 165190
- Chapter Nine: Fear and Loathing in Suburbia: School Shootings 183208
- Chapter Ten: Fatal Attraction: The Serial Killer in American Popular Culture 203228
- Exemplar of Modernity 204229
- Narrative M.O. 205230
- Fictional Representations 206231
- Moral Panic and Political Rhetoric 207232
- Thomas Harris and the Rise of Serial Killer Culture 209234
- The “Celebrity” Serial Killer 211236
- Reorientation and Rationalization 213238
- Disavowal and Dexter: The Heroic Serial Killer 215240
- Notes 217242
- Bibliography 220245
- Chapter Eleven: Presidential Violence 223248
- Andrew Jackson: The Personal Is the Political 224249
- Theodore Roosevelt: Violence and Masculine Self-Transformation 227252
- Presidential Violence in the Age of Mass Destruction 230255
- Postmodern Presidential Violence: Zombies, Vampires, and Werewolves 234259
- Conclusion 239264
- Notes 240265
- Bibliography 241266
- Chapter Twelve: September 11 and Beyond: The Influence of 9/11 on American Film and Television 243268
- Chapter Thirteen: The War on Terror in American Popular Culture 265290
- Violence and War: Constructing ‘Self’ and ‘Other’ 267292
- Early Responses to 9/11 in American Popular Culture 270295
- Reproducing Gendered and Racialized Discourses Post-9/11 273298
- Expanding the Discourse: Alternative Representations of Violence 275300
- Conclusion 276301
- Notes 277302
- Bibliography 278303
- About the Editor and Contributors 281306
- Index 285310
- Volume 2: Representations of Violence in Popular Cultural Genres 299324
- Title 299324
- Copyright 300325
- Contents 301326
- Acknowledgments 303328
- Foreword: American Popular Culture—There Will Be Blood 305330
- Introduction: Recovering American Violence 311336
- Chapter One: Traversing the Boundaries of Moral Deviance: New England Execution Sermons, 1674–1825 321346
- Chapter Two: Reading between the Lines: The Penny Press and the Purpose of Making Violence News 349374
- Chapter Three: The Coy, the Graphic, and the Ugly: Violence in Dime Novels 369394
- Violence and Censorship: The Dime Novel as Contested Ideological Territory 370395
- Violence and Sensation: Shifting Reader Identification in Dime Novel Torture Scenes 374399
- Violence and Genre: Situating Dime Novels with the Conventions of Crime Fiction 379404
- Drawing-Room Mystery: Secrets, Ghosts, and Offstage Violence 380405
- The Hardboiled: Detectives, Outlaws, and a Damsel in Distress 382407
- The Police Detective and the Forced Marriage: Race, Gender, and Violence in Phebe Paullin’s Fate 384409
- Conclusions 386411
- Suggestions for Further Reading 386411
- Notes 387412
- Bibliography 388413
- Chapter Four: “She Decided to Kill Her Husband”: Housewives in Contemporary American Fictions of Crime 391416
- Chapter Five: Hard-Boiled Detectives and the Roman Noir Tradition 415440
- Chapter Six: Violence, the Production Code, and Film Noir 439464
- Chapter Seven: From Knights to Knights-Errant: The Evolution of Westerns through Portrayals of Violence 465490
- Chapter Eight: Modus Operandi: Continuity and Change in Television Crime Drama at the Forensic Turn 489514
- Veracity, Verisimilitude, and Valor: Mid–Twentieth-Century Police Procedurals 491516
- New Channels for New, Non-Fiction Crime Stories 493518
- The Terror of Trauma: Forensic Procedurals of the New Millennium 497522
- “With Better Light Let in By Death”: Forensic Procedurals as Mourning Rituals 501526
- Over My Dead Body 504529
- Notes 505530
- Bibliography 508533
- Chapter Nine: Documenting Murder before In Cold Blood: The 1950s Origins of True-Crime 511536
- Chapter Ten: Capote’s Children: Patterns of Violence in Contemporary American True-Crime Narratives 531556
- Chapter Eleven: “I’m Not Prepared to Die”: Murdered-Girl Tunes in Appalachia 547572
- Chapter Twelve: AmeriKKKa’s Human Sacrifice: Blackness, Gangsta Rap, and Authentic Villainy 565590
- Chapter Thirteen: “Violent Lives”: The Representation of Violence in American Comics 589614
- Chapter Fourteen: “Command and Conquer”: Video Games and Violence 611636
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