WINNER OF THE 2008 AAP/PSP PROSE AWARD FOR BEST NEW JOURNAL IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES! Projections is published in association with The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image and The Forum for Movies and Mind. 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. Please visit the Berghahn website for more information about the journal: http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/proj 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 Recommend Projections to your library Are you unable to access these articles through your library? As a key researcher in your field you can recommend Projections to your library for subscription. A form for this purpose is provided on the Projections website: http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/proj/proj_lib.pdf Free Sample Issue of Projections View Volume 4, Issue 1 here: http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/proj/index.php?pg=sample Free Online Trial / Sample Copy Sample requests for print copies as well as free 60-day online trials are available for all Berghahn Journals. Find full details at http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/?pg=sample. For additional information, including subscription details as well as submission guidelines, visit http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/proj Please don't hesitate to contact me directly if you have questions or would like more information. Kind regards, Young Lee Berghahn Journals [log in to unmask] ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: https://listserv.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html