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- Title
John Woo's Cinema of Hyperkinetic Violence: From A Better Tomorrow to Face/Off.
- Authors
Hanke, Robert
- Abstract
An essay is presented on the critics of the film "Face/Off," directed by John Woo. The said film presents with a more complicated case of interpreting screen violence and understanding its social and cultural implications. Meanwhile, mass communication scholar George Gerbner notes that violence is a "cheap, industrial ingredient" used to project a sense of male power. Moreover, it asserts that screen violence is not the representation of physical acts but social relations of power.
- Subjects
FILM critics; FILM criticism; VIOLENCE in motion pictures; FACE/OFF (Film); WOO, John, 1946-; GERBNER, George
- Publication
Film Criticism, 1999, Vol 24, Issue 1, p39
- ISSN
0163-5069
- Publication type
Essay