Passionate Detachments

Passionate DetachmentsInvestigates the cultural value of film violence. Passionate Detachments investigates the rise of graphic violence in American films of the late 1960s and early 1970s and the popular aesthetics and critical responses this violence inspired. Amy Rust examines four technologies adopted by commercial American cinema after the fall of the Hollywood Production Code: multiple camera montage, squibs (small explosive devices) and artificial blood, freeze

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projecting Vonnegut's relevance to the next millennium

to wonder what each of us will leave behind

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Particular emphasis is placed on Shakespeare's relation to Machiavelli

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and Betty Kaplun Award presented by the National Jewish Book Council

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