Graphic violence in the cinema: origins, aesthetic design, and social effects / Stephen Prince -- The thin red line / Joseph Morgenstern -- Movies to kill people by / Bosley Crowther -- Crowther's 'Bonnie'-brook: Rap at violence stirs brouhaha / Ronald Gold -- Statement by Jack Valenti, MPAA president, before the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence -- Bang bang bang bang, ad nauseum / John Bailey -- Death and its details / David Thomson -- Violence: the strong and the weak / Devin McKinney -- The violent dance: a personal memoir of death in the movies / Vivian C. Sobchack -- Her body, himself: gender in the slasher film / Carol J. Clover -- The aesthetic of slow-motion violence in the films of Sam Peckinpah / Stephen Prince -- Some effects of thoughts on anti- and prosocial influences of media events: a cognitive-neoassociation analysis / Leonard Berkowitz -- Mass media effects on violent behavior / Richard B. Felson.