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Civilized Violence

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Civilized Violence

By David Hansen-Miller

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Civilized Violence provides a social and historical explanation for the popular appeal of cinema violence. There is a significant amount of research on the effects of media violence, but less work on what attracts audiences to representations of violence in the first place. Drawing on historical-sociology, cultural studies, feminist and queer theory, masculinity studies and textual analysis, David Hansen-Miller explains how the exercise of violence has been concealed and denied by modern society...Show more

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9781138261020

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published year

2016

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1

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Civilized Violence

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Paperback

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