Introduction : violence and American cinema : notes for an investigation / J. David Slocum
Violence and film / William Rothman
The violence of a perfect moment / Leo Charney
Violence American style : the narrative orchestration of violent attractions / Marsha Kinder
"Clean, dependable slapstick" : comic violence and the emergence of classical Hollywood cinema / Peter Kramer
The spectacle of criminality / Richard Maltby
Murder's tongue : identity, death, and the city in film noir / Paul Archer
Violence in the film western / Lee Clark Mitchell
Passion and acceleration : generic change in the action film / Rikke Schubart
Black violence as cinema : from cheap thrills to historical agonies / Ed Guerrero
Documenting domestic violence in American films / Phyllis Frus
Splitting the difference : global identity politics and the representation of torture in the counterhistorical dramatic film / Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg
Holocaust film criticism and the politics of Judeo-Christian phenomenology / Terri Ginsberb.
