Blood Poets: A Cinema Of Savagery, 1958-1999; Author: Horsley, Jake; Paperback

Author: Horsley, Jake
Paperback; Index
496 pages
Published: March 2000
Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 081083670X

Freelance film critic Horsley aspires to bridge the gap between academic cultural studies and popular movie reviews in a two-volume analysis of Hollywood's love-hate relationship with brutality in all its forms. In volume one, he discusses 58 films (arranged by director or sub-genres of his own creation), including Blue Velvet, The Player, Die Hard, Silence of the Lambs, Repo Man, Fargo, Reservoir Dogs, El Mariachi, Angel Heart, Seven, and The Matrix. He includes no illustrations. Each volume is indexed separately and can be read independently.The second volume in a study of 40 years of violent American cinema. Examining films such as Psycho and A Clockwork Orange, it provides 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.