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eBook details
- Title: Violence in American Popular Culture
- Author : David Schmid
- Release Date : January 30, 2015
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2579 KB
Description
This timely collection provides a historical overview of violence in American popular culture from the Puritan era to the present and across a range of media.
• Provides a narrative of the development of violence in American popular culture, illustrating both continuity and change
• Combines an overview of each essay's subject matter with in-depth analysis of specific examples
• Features discussion of well-known portrayers of violence, such as film and television, as well as lesser-known sources—for example, murder ballads and Puritan sermons—helping readers place contemporary concerns and examples into a detailed historical context
• Suggests directions for future research and other developments in the field
• Includes a keyword index to enable readers to track continuities across the various essays