You wrote: > >I have a student who is applying for a young scholars' NEH grant and is >preparing a bibliography to support his proposal. Are there some good >studies out there of the various styles in which violence is presented in >films? Many thanks. > >Dan Gribbin [log in to unmask] >Ferrum College >Ferrum, VA 24088 I don't know if there is a study that covers it all, but when it comes to sub-genres, these are some of my personal favourites: Clover, Carol (1992) Men, Women and Chain Saws. Gender in the Modern Horror Film. New Jersey : Princeton University Press. A definite must-read. Twitchell, James B. (1989) Preposterous Violence. Fables of Aggression in Modern Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Not only on film. Quite O.K. Tudor, Andrew (1989) Monsters and Mad Scientists. A Cultural History of the Horror Movie. London: Routledge. Only deals with horror. Very good. Taker, Yvonne (1993) Spectacular Bodies. London: Routledge. Can't remember the subtitle. Anyway, it's on action film and the display of the male body in such films. -- Ulf Dalquist Dept. of Sociology-- -- Box 114 221 00 Lund SWEDEN --