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Early modern tragedy and the cinema of violence

Simkin, Stevie.

Early modern tragedy and the cinema of violence

Simkin, Stevie.

9781403944115

Simkin, Stevie.

Houndmills ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

viii, 264 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes index.

Pt I. Justice and revenge. 1. Introduction: "Don't get mad, get even" -- 2. Revenge in its social contexts: early modern tragedy -- 3. Revenge in its social contexts: late twentieth-century cinema -- 4. "When the bad bleed, then is the tragedy good": politics, morality and revenge -- 5. "Taint not thy mind": the morality of revenge -- Pt II. Gender and violence. 6. Women dipped in blood: gender, violence and control in early modern tragedy -- 7. A thin red line: gender, violence and contemporary cinema -- 8. Sex and violence: The changeling (1622) and Straw dogs (1971) -- 9. White devils and basic instincts -- Pt III. Death and the damaged body. 10. Introduction: vile bodies -- 11. Spectacles of death -- 12. Punishment and redemption -- Conclusion: Gendered revenge.

"Early modern tragedy and the cinema of violence is a highly original study that considers two genres set four hundred years apart - revenge tragedies of the early seventeenth century and violent cinema of the last thirty years. What happens when we connect The white devil with Basic instinct, The changeling or Titus Andronicus with Straw dogs, Doctor Faustus with Se7en, Taxi driver or Robocop with The Spanish tragedy?" -- BOOK JACKET.

Violence in motion pictures.

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