Civilized violence : subjectivity, gender and popular cinema /
by David Hansen-Miller.
- Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Company, 2011.
- vii,205p.: 22cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes filmography.
Introduction -- From scaffold to cinema : violence as a force of subjection and subjectivation -- Violence and clinical authority in "the aetiology of hysteria" and The cabinet of Dr. Caligari -- Violence and the passage from responsibility to desire in The sheik -- The death of popular sovereignty in Once upon a time in the west -- Deliverance and its uses : subjectivity, violence and nervous laughter -- Conclusion : gender and pervasive violence.
9781409412588(hbk)
2011012888
Violence in motion pictures. Psychic trauma in motion pictures.