Violence in American Popular Culture [2 volumes]

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Volume 1: American History and Violent Popular Culture
	Title
	Copyright
	Contents
	Acknowledgments
	Foreword: American Popular Culture—There Will Be Blood
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Introduction: Recovering American Violence
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter One: The Vanishing Trace of Violence in Native American Literature and Film
		Ritualism
		Minimalism
		Ironism
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter Two: The Politics of Pain: Representing the Violence of Slavery in American Popular Culture
		The Strange Career of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
		The Eroticization of Interracial Violence
		Reconceptualizing the Violence of Slavery in the Post–Civil Rights Era
		Conclusion: Representing the Violence of Slavery in the “Post-Racial” Era
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter Three: Natural Laws, Unnatural Violence, and the Psychophysical Experience of the Civil War Generation in America
		Violence in Antebellum America
		Simply Murder: Unfathomable Killing and the Civil War
		Psychophysical Coping with a Bloody Past
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter Four: World War II in American Popular Culture, 1945–Present
		Early Postwar, 1945–1948
		Cold War, 1948–1962
		The Vietnam War Era, 1962–1978
		Post Vietnam, 1978–2001
		Post-9/11
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter Five: American Dreams and Nightmares: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement
		American Dreams
		American Nightmares
		A Change Is Gonna Come
		Marching Forward: Fifty Years Later
		Final Thoughts
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter Six: Exploring Popular Cultural Narratives of Gender Violence
		Domestic Violence
		Rape
		Sexual Harassment
		Hate Crimes
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter Seven: Vigilant Citizens and Horrific Heroes: Perpetuating the Positive Portrayal of Vigilantes
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter Eight: The Violent Gang in American Popular Culture: From Pirates and Cowboys to Bikers and Gangstas
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter Nine: Fear and Loathing in Suburbia: School Shootings
		Defining School Shootings
		Apportioning Blame in the Aftermath
		True Crime Treatments
		Fictional Responses
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter Ten: Fatal Attraction: The Serial Killer in American Popular Culture
		Exemplar of Modernity
		Narrative M.O.
		Fictional Representations
		Moral Panic and Political Rhetoric
		Thomas Harris and the Rise of Serial Killer Culture
		The “Celebrity” Serial Killer
		Reorientation and Rationalization
		Disavowal and Dexter: The Heroic Serial Killer
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter Eleven: Presidential Violence
		Andrew Jackson: The Personal Is the Political
		Theodore Roosevelt: Violence and Masculine Self-Transformation
		Presidential Violence in the Age of Mass Destruction
		Postmodern Presidential Violence: Zombies, Vampires, and Werewolves
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter Twelve: September 11 and Beyond: The Influence of 9/11 on American Film and Television
		September 11, 2001
		Iraq
		Missions
		Homecoming
		Conclusion: Violence Coming Home
		Notes
		Bibliography
		Film and Television
	Chapter Thirteen: The War on Terror in American Popular Culture
		Violence and War: Constructing ‘Self’ and ‘Other’
		Early Responses to 9/11 in American Popular Culture
		Reproducing Gendered and Racialized Discourses Post-9/11
		Expanding the Discourse: Alternative Representations of Violence
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	About the Editor and Contributors
		The Editor
		The Contributors
	Index
Volume 2: Representations of Violence in Popular Cultural Genres
	Title
	Copyright
	Contents
	Acknowledgments
	Foreword: American Popular Culture—There Will Be Blood
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Introduction: Recovering American Violence
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter One: Traversing the Boundaries of Moral Deviance: New England Execution Sermons, 1674–1825
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter Two: Reading between the Lines: The Penny Press and the Purpose of Making Violence News
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter Three: The Coy, the Graphic, and the Ugly: Violence in Dime Novels
		Violence and Censorship: The Dime Novel as Contested Ideological Territory
		Violence and Sensation: Shifting Reader Identification in Dime Novel Torture Scenes
		Violence and Genre: Situating Dime Novels with the Conventions of Crime Fiction
		Drawing-Room Mystery: Secrets, Ghosts, and Offstage Violence
		The Hardboiled: Detectives, Outlaws, and a Damsel in Distress
		The Police Detective and the Forced Marriage: Race, Gender, and Violence in Phebe Paullin’s Fate
		Conclusions
		Suggestions for Further Reading
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter Four: “She Decided to Kill Her Husband”: Housewives in Contemporary American Fictions of Crime
		Examining Housewife Violence
		Locating Violent Housewives
		Comedy Violence
		“True Crime” and Confessional Discourses
		Conclusion: Violent American Housewives
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter Five: Hard-Boiled Detectives and the Roman Noir Tradition
		The Emergence of the Hard-Boiled and Roman Noir
		Dashiell Hammett
		Raymond Chandler
		James M. Cain
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter Six: Violence, the Production Code, and Film Noir
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter Seven: From Knights to Knights-Errant: The Evolution of Westerns through Portrayals of Violence
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter Eight: Modus Operandi: Continuity and Change in Television Crime Drama at the Forensic Turn
		Veracity, Verisimilitude, and Valor: Mid–Twentieth-Century Police Procedurals
		New Channels for New, Non-Fiction Crime Stories
		The Terror of Trauma: Forensic Procedurals of the New Millennium
		“With Better Light Let in By Death”: Forensic Procedurals as Mourning Rituals
		Over My Dead Body
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter Nine: Documenting Murder before In Cold Blood: The 1950s Origins of True-Crime
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter Ten: Capote’s Children: Patterns of Violence in Contemporary American True-Crime Narratives
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter Eleven: “I’m Not Prepared to Die”: Murdered-Girl Tunes in Appalachia
		Pearl Bryan
		Omie Wise
		Lula Viers
		Tom Dula
		Contemporary Murder Ballads
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter Twelve: AmeriKKKa’s Human Sacrifice: Blackness, Gangsta Rap, and Authentic Villainy
		Authentic Gangsters and Black Criminality in the American Imagination
		Criminality and Gangsta Rap’s Beginnings
		Police Violence and Gangsta Rap’s Golden Age
		Two More Murders and the Aftermath
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter Thirteen: “Violent Lives”: The Representation of Violence in American Comics
		Violence in American Comics
		Superhero Comics and Violence
		Violence and the Road to Grim’n’Gritty
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter Fourteen: “Command and Conquer”: Video Games and Violence
		A Short History of Video Game “Violence” Discourse
		Video Game “Effects”: Violent Video Games = Violent Behaviors
		Critiques of Violent Video Game Playing = Violent Behavior
		Putting Violence in Context
		God of War Series
		Guild Wars Series
		Violence Doesn’t Always Sell: The Rise of Indie and Mobile Gaming
		Concluding Thoughts: Gamergate as Real-World Violence
		Notes
		Bibliography
	About the Editor and Contributors
		The Editor
		The Contributors
	Index