An edition of Violent Screen (1995)

Violent screen

a critic's 13 years on the front lines of movie mayhem

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Violent screen
Stephen Hunter
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An edition of Violent Screen (1995)

Violent screen

a critic's 13 years on the front lines of movie mayhem

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In this book, his first as movie critic, Hunter does what no one else has done - identified the most important or notorious 100 movies released since 1982, organized them by topic, and analyzed them for how they uniquely deal with, and what they say about, violence. Because it deals with a subject on the minds of many Americans and American politicians, Violent Screen is thus extraordinarily timely. Yet, as a serious book by a serious reviewer, it is timeless, too.

It's also entertaining. Hunter's movie-reviewing is rife with energy, humor, sharp-edged analysis, and intensity. He's a man who loves the movies so much he can't walk away from a reviewing job at a daily newspaper despite earning substantial sums on each of the novels he now writes.

His first book of non-fiction will appeal to the millions of film and video lovers whose idea of entertainment is a regular trip to the movie theater or the video store, and whose idea of a good discussion is one centering on a recent or important movie they've seen at home or in a theater.

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Bancroft Press
Language
English
Pages
308

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Table of Contents

Contents, Film noir
The outlaw life
Sexual obsession
True criminals
Horror
Wise guys
Cops-r-us
Action-adventure
The wild, wild west
The future
War
Race in America
Domestic violence
No exit.

Edition Notes

Published in
Baltimore, Md

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.43/653
Library of Congress
PN1995.9.V5, PN1995.9.V5 H86 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
iii, 308 p. ;
Number of pages
308

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22162447M
ISBN 10
0963537644
LCCN
96205575
OCLC/WorldCat
96205575, 33981125
Library Thing
990148
Goodreads
3804734

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