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Violence and mediation in contemporary culture / edited by Ronald Bogue and Marcel Cornis-Pope. - Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1996. - 1 online resource (207 pages) : illustrations. - SUNY series, the margins of literature . - SUNY series, the margins of literature. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : paradigms of conflict and mediation in literary and cultural imagination / Ronald Bogue and Marcel Cornis-Pope -- The melancholy object of consumption / Stanley Corngold -- On wounding : windows, screens, and desire / Jerry Herron -- The last days of Arnold Schwarzenegger / Albert Liu -- The Jew as woman's symptom : Kathlyn Bigelow's conflictive representation of feminine power / Elisabeth Bronfen -- Shattered hopes : on Blue velvet / Susan Derwin -- Murder and mystery Mormon style : violence and mediation in American popular culture / Terryl Givens -- Revolution : hope without future or future without hope / Tonglin Lu -- What is mimetic desire? / Paisley Livingston -- Murder as play : Conrad Aiken's King Coffin / Mihai Spariosu -- Contest vs. mediation : models of discursive power in innovative fiction / Marcel Cornis-Pope.

ISBN: 0585046220 9780585046228

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Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1900-1999

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Popular culture--History--20th century.
Popular culture--History--United States--20th century.
Violence in literature.
Violence in mass media.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
Popular culture.
Violence in literature.
Violence in mass media.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: CB430 / .V56 1996eb

Dewey Class. No.: 306/.0973