Violence and mediation in contemporary culture / edited by Ronald Bogue and Marcel Cornis-Pope
. – Albany : State University of New York Press, 1996
207p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
. – ( 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.
ISBN0791427196 : ISBN079142720X (pbk.) :
1. Popular culture – History – 20th century. 1. Popular culture – History – United States – 20th century. 1. Violence in literature. 1. Violence in mass media.
I. Bogue, Ronald, I. Cornis-Pope, Marcel.