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Dear Colleague,

We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of Projections has recently
been published by Berghahn Journals. This special issue is titled:
Entertaining Violence. It addresses the representational and behavioral
issues involved in screen violence. Guest editor Dirk Eitzen provides a
scholarly as well as a personal exploration of the manner in which film
violence can be appealing as well as a cause for concern. 

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Volume 7, Issue 1
 
FROM THE EDITOR
http://bit.ly/18fNMGJ

ARTICLES
Introduction: The Problem of Entertaining Violence
http://bit.ly/12Tfw0t
Dirk Eitzen

Cultural Effects of Cinematic Violence: Private Ryan and the Dark Knight
http://bit.ly/12sbyeR
Dirk Eitzen

Violence in Extreme Cinema and the Ethics of Spectatorship
http://bit.ly/16Ml0zD
William Brown

Monstrous Appetites and Positive Emotions in True Blood, The Vampire
Diaries, and The Walking Dead
http://bit.ly/10MGsA0
Riike Schubart

Regarding Violence
http://bit.ly/14u8CAD
Henry Bacon
 
The Hostel Rhetoric of Torture: A Discourse Analysis of Torture Porn
http://bit.ly/12JPONd
Will Gartside
 
"Violence Is a Many-Splintered Thing": The Importance of Realism,
Justification, and Graphicness in Understanding Perceptions of and
Preferences for Violent Films and Video Games
http://bit.ly/16Mlbee
Ron Tamborini, René Weber, Nicolas David Bowman, Allison Eden, and Paul
Skalski
 
BOOK REVIEWS
Maggie Nelson, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
http://bit.ly/13ILmzi
Maggie Hennefeld
 
Karla Oeler, A Grammar of Murder: Violent Scenes and Film Form
http://bit.ly/Zb9R8P
Aaron Petten
 
BOOK SYMPOSIUM
Seeing Fictions in Film: The Epistemology of Movies, by George M. Wilson
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)
http://bit.ly/10SeYGl


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