The Blood Poets: Millennial blues : from Apocalypse now to The matrix

Jake Horsley

Scarecrow Press, 1999 - Performing Arts - 512 pages

Increasingly, society questions the connection between violence in entertainment and violence in life. Moralists and censors would reply resoundingly that media violence and social violence are directly linked, but others ask the deeper question: Why do people feel the need to create images of violence, and why do audiences continually watch them? In this thought-provoking and insightful study of American violent cinema, author Jake Horsley attempts to answer these questions by tying together the multiple disciplines of psychology, criminology, censorship, and anthropology. Horsley divides the forty years of his study into two volumes: American Chaos: From Touch of Evil to The Terminator, and Millennial Blues: From Apocalypse Now to The Matrix. These volumes aim to provide both a critical overview of the films themselves and a cultural study of the social and psychological factors relating to the demand for screen violence. By doing so, Horsley raises a new dialogue between scholars and movie buffs to examine the need to portray and the need to watch violent films.

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Review: The Blood Poets: A Cinema of Savagery, 1958-98: Millennial Blues, from "Apocalypse Now" to "The Edge" v. 2 (Filmmakers Series, No. 68)

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I really liked it at the beginning, because the author's young and exuberant personality shows through in his subjective reviews and endless footnoting asides, but isn't it said that the thing that ...

Contents

• Pulp CultureBrute Expressions of Rage: 1
• Return of the IdThe Suburbia of Corruption: 67
• Something Wicked This Way Comes: 121

About the author

\Jake Horsley is a digital filmmaker, who has written three books on film. His latest, Matrix Warrior: Being the One, was published in 2003.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Blood Poets: Millennial blues : from Apocalypse now to The matrix; Volume 2 of The Blood Poets: A Cinema of Savagery 1958-1999. American Chaos, from Touch of Evil to The Terminator, Jake Horsley; The Blood Poets; G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series; Issue 68 of Filmmakers series; Volume 2 of The Blood Poets: A Cinema of Savagery 1958-1999, Jake Horsley, ISBN 0810836718, 9780810836716; The Blood Poets. V.2: A Cinema of Savagery, 1958-1999 ; Millennial Blues - from Apocalypse Now to The Matrix, Jack Horsley
• Author: Jake Horsley
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press, 1999
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Feb 26, 2008
• Length: 512 pages
• Subjects: Motion pictures; Motion pictures - United States; Motion pictures/ United States; Performing Arts / Film & Video / General; Performing Arts / Film & Video / History & Criticism; Violence in motion pictures