Violent Screen: A Critic's 13 Years on the Front Lines of Movie Mayhem Book

	Introduction	xix
I.	Film Noir: "All hail sleaze and evil"
	Reservoir Dogs	1
	Romeo Is Bleeding	5
	The Last Seduction	6
	Blood Simple	9
	Pulp Fiction	12
	The Grifters	15
	Article: "Old Film Noir Flickers Ironically Through New Noir"	17
II.	The Outlaw Life: "Sex and death entwined in style"
	One False Move	27
	Wild at Heart	28
	Thelma & Louise	31
	Kalifornia	33
	Natural Born Killers	35
	True Romance	38
	Article: "Pulp Fiction Gets Reel: Slick Films Grow From Seedy Novels"	41
III.	Sexual Obsession: "A mad yin-yang of fear and desire"
	Fatal Attraction	49
	Boxing Helena	51
	Blue Velvet	53
	Basic Instinct	56
	Crimes of Passion	58
	The Accused	61
	Article: "A Clueless 'Basic Instinct' Glorifies Male Virility, Power While Denigrating Women"	63
IV.	"True" Criminals: "Not exactly Rhodes scholars to begin with"
	Murder One	69
	Brother's Keeper	71
	The Krays	73
	The Thin Blue Line	75
	Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer	78
V.	Horror: "In the moist and ferny jungle of the id"
	The Silence of the Lambs	83
	Manhunter	84
	The Hitcher	87
	The Stepfather	88
	A Nightmare on Elm Street	91
	The Evil Dead	93
	Day of the Dead	95
	Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday	97
	Slumber Party Massacre	98
	Article: "History's Psychopathic Killers Paralleled by Film Monsters"	101
	Article: "Horrors! What Are Movies Coming To?"	106
VI.	Wise Guys: "Can the family that slays together stay together?"
	GoodFellas	115
	Prizzi's Honor	117
	The Godfather, Part III	120
	Bugsy	123
	Scarface	126
	The Untouchables	129
	Harlem Nights	131
VII.	Cops-R-Us: "A lot of wrecked flesh around"
	Lethal Weapon	137
	Lethal Weapon 3	139
	48 Hrs.	141
	Blue Steel	144
	The Dead Pool	146
	In the Line of Fire	149
	Article: "Hollywood's Shooting Stars"	151
VIII.	Action-Adventure: "The myth of masculine force"
	Die Hard	161
	The Terminator	163
	Terminator 2	166
	First Blood	168
	Rambo: First Blood, Part II	171
	Rambo III	174
	True Lies	177
	Article: "Guns Are Gold on Today's Silver Screen"	179
	Article: "All Fired Up Over Big Guns: Hollywood's Still Promoting Myths"	187
IX.	The Wild, Wild West: "Death comes all at once, and how!"
	Unforgiven	195
	Dances With Wolves	197
	Posse	200
	Tombstone	202
	Wyatt Earp	204
	The Wild Bunch	207
X.	The Future: "Smiling through the apocalypse"
	Total Recall	215
	RoboCop	217
	The Road Warrior	219
	Aliens	223
	Blade Runner	225
XI.	War: "The charisma of brutality"
	Full Metal Jacket	231
	Platoon	235
	The Killing Fields	237
	Casualties of War	241
	Article: "Changing Film Images of Vietnam"	244
	Born on the Fourth of July	249
	Glory	252
	Article: "The Patriot Game: Two New Films Take Opposite Views of War"	255
	Schindler's List	260
	Shoah	263
	Sophie's Choice	267
	Article: "The Holocaust on the Screen"	271
	Article: "Second Thoughts on Spielberg but No Second Guesses"	277
XII.	Race In America: "Rage, ambiguity and native ugliness"
	A Soldier's Story	285
	Malcolm X	288
	Do the Right Thing	291
	Boyz N the Hood	293
	Betrayed	295
	The Color Purple	298
XIII.	Domestic Violence: "When love has fled"
	What's Love Got to Do With It?	305
	The War of the Roses	307
	Sleeping with the Enemy	309
	Article: "Crash! Go Movie Marriages"	311
	The Hand That Rocks the Cradle	316
	This Boy's Life	318
	Legends of the Fall	320
	Article: "Major-League Anger"	323
XIV.	No Exit: "Lost in hell or some suburb thereof"
	Last Exit to Brooklyn	333
	Sid and Nancy	335
	River's Edge	337
	Glengarry Glen Ross	339
	The King of Comedy	341
	Short Cuts	344
	Bad Lieutenant	347
XV.	Late Developments: "Slap another Maverick on my Hornet. I've got aliens to nuke!"
	Article: "Films Under Fire"	351
	The Usual Suspects	357
	To Die For	359
	GoldenEye	361
	Heat	363
	Broken Arrow	366
	Fargo	368
	Primal Fear	371
	Taxi Driver	373
	Independence Day	379
	Courage Under Fire	381
	Epilogue: Article: "Father of Darkness"	387