The Aesthetics of Violence in Contemporary Media
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1. "Violence at the Speed of Live": The Televirtuality of 9/11 andRebuking the Frame of (Re)Presentation -- Déjà vu and the Inadequacy of Fantasy -- The Audio of the Image -- Emotions and the Breakdown of Narrative Authority -- The (Im)Perfection of the Virtual and the Assumption of Global Homogeneity -- 2. "We Can't Believe It's Not Butter": Polemical Violence andFaking Authenticity -- Series 7: The Contenders -- Audience Reception and Textual Interdiscursivity -- Editing Versus Authenticity -- Bowling for Columbine and Editing the Polemical -- Norma Khouri and the Hoax as Reader Seduction -- 3. "It Is a True Story but It Might Not Have Happened":Voyeurism and Fiction in the True Crime Narrative -- Sensationalism -- Audience Voyeurism and Forensic Actuality -- Illusory Forensic Authenticity in Law & -- Order -- The Author's Story Versus the Murderer's -- Taking Sides in Joe Cinques Consolation -- 4. Show Business or Dirty Business?: The Theatrics of Mafia Narrative and Empathy for the Last Mob Boss Standing in The Sopranos -- Gangsters On and Off the Screen -- The Sopranos and Performativity -- Tony Performing Tony -- 5. "Solving Problems with Sharp Objects": Female Empowerment, Sex, and Violence in Buffy, the Vampire Slayer -- Sharing Gender Roles -- Violence and Buffy's Emotions -- Violence and the Erotics of Shame -- Female Empowerment and the "Almost" Rape -- 6. "Getting Kicks from Action Pix": Righteous Violence and the Choreographed Body in F(l)ight -- Fightable Moments -- The Flying Body -- Pause for Applause -- The Invulnerable Body -- Killer Schlock -- The Dance of the Parodied Body -- 7. "It's Just Detail": Flaying the Sacred and Prosthetic, Pixilated and Animated Violence in the Hyperreal -- Hyperrealism -- Violence Against the Sacred in the Hyperreal.