Ultraviolent Movies: From Sam Peckinpah to Quentin Tarantino

By Laurent Bouzereau

Book Overview

A history of extreme violence in movies analyzes the public response to this ever-growing phenomenon tracing its beginnings in films such as Bonnie and Clyde, and discussing how it fits into the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806517875
• ISBN13: 9780806517872
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Carol Publishing Corporation
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A must have for the action movie fanatic

A lot can be said for this book, but I'll try to keep it short.First, the cons. This book can be a bit dry. It takes a genre (i.e. Law and Order for police movies), then it will choose several films from this genre and discuss what the movie was about, why critics either hated it or liked it. Some movies even get a section on any particularly famous, gory scenes within. Another thing that I didn't particularly care for was that it included several horror films that weren't particularly violent. Psycho, which has a relatively low body count when compared with Friday the 13th, etc. Of course, Psycho was included because it was directed by the master Alfred Hitchcock, but doesn't seem ultra-violent.The best thing about this book is that it shows how violence has progressed in movies, starting with Bonnie and Clyde, all the way through RoboCop (one of the bloodiest action movies ever made in my opinion). Many well known movies are discussed (Dirty Harry, Clockwork Orange), as well as some smaller, lesser-known movies (Walking Tall).The pros far outwiegh the cons. For any one who lies their movies full of Desert Eagle handguns, this book is for you.

This is a sick but jovial book...

And anytime an author can make gore an exciting and interesting element, then he's done his job. DEATH WISH, WALKING TALL, TAXI DRIVER, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, and more. Buy it and be disgusted [...] and just enjoy!