Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. What Do We Mean by 'Film Violence'?
2. A History of Film Violence
3. Violence and Genre: The Western, Horror, and Action Film
4. Case Study: Violence and the New American Cinema
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

James Kendrick is assistant professor of communication studies at Baylor University and the author of Hollywood Bloodshed: Violence in 1980s American Cinema.

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