Special Feature: Film and Violence

Edited by Shilyh Warren and Merry Jett

Essays

Pleasure and Peril in Narrative Film Violence

A Lust for Violence

Birthing from Within: On Teaching Monstrous Birth in Cronenberg’s The Brood

Biting the Trigger That Feeds You? Teaching Teeth as Feminist Horror

Figuring Violence

Reviews

Films

Reviewers

Girls Town

dir. Jim McKay, 1996.

Foxy Brown

dir. Jack Hill, 1974

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

dir. Chantal Ackerman, 1975. 201 minutes

Kimberly Lamm

Carrie

dir. Kimberly Peirce, 2013

Dawn of the Dead

dir. Zack Snyder, 2004

Larkin Hiott

À Ma Sœur! (Fat Girl)

dir. Catherine Breillat, 2001

Ora Gelley

Fruitvale Station

dir. Ryan Coogler, 2013

Clitha Mason

Reviews

Films

Reviewers

Derby Crazy Love

dir. Maya Gallus and Justine Pimlott, 2013

It Takes a Team! Making Sports Safe for LGBT Athletes and Coaches

dir. Dan Nocera, 2004

Ladies of the Gridiron

dir. Briana Young, 2010

Not Just a Game: Power, Politics & American Sports

dir. Jeremy Earp, 2010

Rita Liberti

Girl Power: All Dolled Up

dir. Sarah Blout Rosenberg, 2011

Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney, Childhood, and Corporate Power

dir. Chyng Feng Sun, 2001

Tough Guise 2: Violence, Manhood, and American Culture

dir. Jeremy Earp, 2013

Elana Levine

Quest for Honor

dir. Mary Ann Smothers Bruni, 2009

Mutluluk (Bliss)

dir. Abdullah Oğuz, 2007

In the Name of the Family

dir. Shelley Saywell, 2010

Afiya S. Zia and Shahrzad Mojab

Honor The Treaties

dir. Eric Becker, 2012

Tinku Kamayu

dir. Mabel Maio, 2008

Verna St. Denis

SAJ: Muslim in America

dir. Sam Pollard, 2005

Unveiled Views: Muslim Women Artists Speak Out

dir. Alba Sotorra, 2009

Going up the Stairs: Portrait of an Unlikely Iranian Artist

dir. Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, 2011

Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi

Esther Broner: A Weave of Women

dir. Lilly Rivlin, 2013

Her Israel

dir. Marjan Tehrani, 2003

The Queen Has No Crown

dir. Tomer Heymann, 2011

Cynthia M. Baker