The Blood Poets: A Cinema of Savagery, 1958-1999

by Jasun Horsley and Jake Horsley

Book Overview

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 audiences continually watch them? In this thought-provoking and insightful study of American violent cinema, author Jake Horsley attempts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810836688
• ISBN13: 9780810836686
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

hardhead or hothead

"Jake Horsley seems to arrive from out of nowhere, yet here he is--an almost fully-developed and only slightly stoned sensibility. This hothead fantasist offers the excitement of a wild, paranoid style. he lives in the movies, explodes them from the inside, and shares his fevered trance with us. But he doesn't lose his analytic good sense. he's not just a hothead, he's a hardhead, too. Maybe he could use more humor, but couldn't we all? (Intelligent movie criticism is being swamped in seriousness.) He's a marvelous critic. Tackling a new movie, he'll hang in there until he's balanced and sound. It's always a surprise."-Pauline Kael,

Reality=?

Although the book may get some what dilirious at some points it certanly shoes a more alternative revue to alot of movies that we all thought where out there. You get a feeling that the author is in one way trying to distroy Hollywood but still shoes appraisiasion to Hollywood movies. I would get it to show you an alternative side to movie revues.