Hi folks
Here’s something entertaining: the special issue of the Journal of Popular Film & Television has just come out, which focuses on the digital aesthetic of violence. Lorrie Palmer & I are very proud of this issue and its exclusive focus aesthetic construction of violence. We have assembled great work from an international range of scholars:
1. Digital Mayhem, Optical Decimation: The Technopoetics of Special Effects
Garrett Stewart
2. Digital Visceral: Textural Play and the Flamboyant Gesture in Digital Screen Violence
Lisa Purse
3. Blood in the Corridor: The Digital Mastery of Hero Run Shoot-outs in Kick-Ass and Wanted
Stuart Bender & Lorrie Palmer
4. Life Out of Death—Violent FX and Its Vivacious Power
Paul Johnson
5. Virtue Through Suffering: The American War Film at the End of Celluloid
Tanine Allison
Editors introduction here:
The Digital Aesthetic of Violence Introducing the Special Issue
Please share with your networks also with people who may be interested.
Cheers
Stuart