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Paul Gormley
The New-Brutality Film
Race and Affect in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
 The New-Brutality Film
Race and Affect in Contemporary Hollywood
Cinema
Paul Gormley
intellect
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Bristol, UK
Portland, OR, USA
First Published in the UK in 2005 by
Intellect Books, PO Box 862, Bristol BS99 1DE, UK
First Published in the USA in 2005 by
Intellect Books, ISBS, 920 NE 58th Ave. Suite 300, Portland, Oregon 97213-3786, USA
Copyright ©2005 Intellect Ltd
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or
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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Electronic ISBN 1-84150-926-4 / ISBN 1-84150-119-0
Cover Design: Gabriel Solomons
Copy Editor: Julie Strudwick
Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd.
Contents
5
Acknowledgments
7
Introduction
Torturous Cinema:
Questions of Affect, Mimesis and Race in The New-Brutality Film
43
Chapter One
Naïve Imitations:
Falling Down
, the Crisis of the Action-Image and Cynical Realism
73
Chapter Two
Gangsters and Gangstas:
Boyz N the Hood
, and the Dangerous Black Body
99
Chapter Three
Gangsters and Gangstas Part Two:
Menace II Society
and the Cinema of Rage
137
Chapter Four
Miming Blackness:
Reservoir Dogs
and ‘American Africanism’
159
Chapter Five
Trashing Whiteness:
Pulp Fiction
,
Se7en
,
Strange Days
and Articulating Affect
183
Conclusion
195
Bibliography
203
Filmography
207
Index
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