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Violent Screen: A Critic's Thirteen Years on the Front Lines of Movie Mayhem
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Violent Screen: A Critic's Thirteen Years on the Front Lines of Movie Mayhem Hardcover - 1995

by Stephen Hunter; Ann Sjoerdsma (Editor)

Gun buff, movie critic and bestselling author of Dirty White Boys, Stephen Hunter takes aim at 13 years of violence on the big screen, hitting the highlights and the lowlifes, the thrills, the chills, and the kills, with deadly precision, explosive prose and devastating good humor.


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In this book, his first as movie critic, Hunter does what no one else has done - identified the most important or notorious 100 movies released since 1982, organized them by topic, and analyzed them for how they uniquely deal with, and what they say about, violence. Because it deals with a subject on the minds of many Americans and American politicians, Violent Screen is thus extraordinarily timely. Yet, as a serious book by a serious reviewer, it is timeless, too. It's also entertaining. Hunter's movie-reviewing is rife with energy, humor, sharp-edged analysis, and intensity. He's a man who loves the movies so much he can't walk away from a reviewing job at a daily newspaper despite earning substantial sums on each of the novels he now writes. His first book of non-fiction will appeal to the millions of film and video lovers whose idea of entertainment is a regular trip to the movie theater or the video store, and whose idea of a good discussion is one centering on a recent or important movie they've seen at home or in a theater.

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  • Title Violent Screen: A Critic's Thirteen Years on the Front Lines of Movie Mayhem
  • Author Stephen Hunter; Ann Sjoerdsma (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 308
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bancroft Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Date 1995-11
  • ISBN 9780963537645 / 0963537644
  • Weight 1.24 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.82 x 5.5 x 0.99 in (22.40 x 13.97 x 2.51 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Violence in motion pictures
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96205575
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.436

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  • Library Journal, 11/15/1995, Page 76
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