Savage Cinema

By Rick Trader Witcombe

Book Overview

No medium is as well equipped as the cinema to bite deeply into the scale of twentieth century violence and its terrible complexity. in Savage Cinema the author explores the theme as presented in the Western and the Horror film. He moves through the worlds of Hitchcock and Polanski, the master so suspense and bloodletting. He analyzes the "mindless violence" of Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, set in the near-future, where queerbashing, mugging, gratuitous robbery and rape are an everyday phenomena. The question posed here is "Who is to blame and who is the villain?" Is it the hoodlum? Or is it the bland and sterile society which has spawned him?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B002ASD1J2
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Bounty Books
• Length: 95 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.