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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081083667X
• ISBN13: 9780810836679
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 368 Pages