Product Description: Civilization seems to move ever more toward the power of words over weapons. But many people, especially Americans, still believe wrongs in life can be righted with a fist or a gun or a bomb. Cultural mythology lags reality and continues to send the message of regeneration through violence...read more

'The text examines violence in film, analyzing psychological and social effects, the dramatic structure of melodrama and its context in reality'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: As a thorough introduction to the complex landscape of postmodern language theory, Cult of the Kill examines the latent violence inherent in language as a tool for community formation and deformation. Each chapter examines different ways in which key postmodern thinkers contribute to an understanding of the metaphysical underpinnings of radical conflict and exclusionary scapegoating practices...read more

Product Description: Subscribing to the view that language is for humans much like water is for fish, this text underscores the importance of implicit understandings language users have of how language works. The work of Kenneth Burke focuses maximum attention on the problem