1st Edition

The Scene of Violence Cinema, Crime, Affect

By Alison Young Copyright 2010
196 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

200 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

200 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

In the contemporary fascination with images of crime, violence gets under our skin and keeps us enthralled. The Scene of Violence explores the spectator’s encounter with the cinematic scene of violence – rape and revenge, homicide and serial killing, torture and terrorism. Providing a detailed reading of both classical and contemporary films – for example, Kill Bill, Blue Velvet, Reservoir... Read more

1. The Crime-Image  2. Judging the Affect of Screen Violence  3. "Don’t You Fucking Look At Me": Sexual Injury, Vision and Cinematic Revenge  4. The Serial Killer’s Accomplice  5. The Cinema of Disaster: Screening 9/11  6. No End to Violence?

Biography

Alison Young

'Alison Young may be the best law and film scholar in the world. Her insight and eminence in the field are amply on display in The Scene of Violence. Here Young draws our attention to what she calls "the spectatorial relation engendered by film." No one who watches a film will ever watch it the same way after reading this book. No one who has ever thought about the relationship of law, violence and film will ever think about them the same way after reading this book. The Scene of Violence will be an instant classic.'  Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College