The Aesthetics of Violence in Contemporary Media Book

Prologue

Introduction

Chapter 1: 'Violence at the Speed of Live': The Televirtuality of 9/11 and Rebuking the Frame of (Re)Presentation

- Deja vu and the Inadequacy of Fantasy

- The Audio of the Image

- Emotions and the Breakdown of Narrative Authority

- The (Im)Perfection of the Virtual and the Assumption of Global Homogeneity

Chapter 2: 'We Can't Believe it's Not Butter': Polemical Violence and Faking Authenticity

- Series 7: The Contenders

- Audience Reception and Textual Interdiscursivity

- Editing Versus Authenticity

- Bowling for Columbine and Editing the Polemical

- Norma Khouri and the Hoax as Reader Seduction

Chapter 3: 'It's a True Story But it Might Not Have Happend': Voyeurism and Fiction in the True Crime Narrative

- Sensationalism

- Audience Voyeurism and Forensic Actuality

- Illusory Forensic Authenticity in Law &Order

- The Author's Story Versus the Murderer's

- Taking Sides in Joe Cinque's Consolation

Chapter 4: Show Business or Dirty Business?: The Theatrics of Mafia Narrative and the Empathy for the Last Mob Boss Standing in The Sopranos

- Gangsters On and Off the Screen

- The Sopranos and Performativity

- Tony Performing Tony

Chapter 5: 'Solving Problems with Sharp Objects': Female Empowerment, Sex and Violence in Buffy, The Vampire Slayer

- Sharing Gender Roles

- Violence and the Erotics of Shame

- Female Empowerment and the 'Almost' Rape

Chapter 6: "Getting Kicks From the Action Pix": Righteous Violence and the Choreographed Body in F(l)ight

- Fightable Moments

- The Flying Body

- Pause for Applause

- The Invulnerable Body

- Killer Schlock

- The Dance of the Parodied Body

Chapter 7: "It's Just Detail": Flaying the Scared and Prosthetic, Pixilated and Animated Violence in hte Hyperreal

- Hyperrealism

- Violence Against the Sacred in the Hyperreal

- The Sacred and Pixilated Dismemberment of the Body

- The Simpsons and Flaying the Sacred in Satire

Conclusion

Epilogue

Bibliography