Contents


John Sakeris

Preface

Grayson Cooke

Willing to Explode: The American Western as Apocalypse-Machine

Lisa Coulthard

The Open Wound and the World's End in John Woo's Face/Off

Carol M. Dole

Woman with a Gun: Cinematic Law Enforcers on the Gender Frontier

Kirby Farrell

Aliens Amok: Men in Black Policing Subjectivity in the '90s

Leslie A. Fiedler

Who's the Cowboy? Who's the Indian?: The Slowest Gun in the West

Murray Forman

Getting the Gun: The Cinematic Representation of Handgun Acquisition

Cynthia Fuchs

While my pen blow lines ferocious: Hiphop Politics and Gangsta Rap's New Bad Rep

George Gerbner

Who is Shooting Whom?: The Content and Context of Media Violence

Kylo-Patrick R. Hart and Brian Anse Patrick

What Automatic Guns Can Do for Motion Pictures: Disambiguation and the Deux-ex-Machina Finale

Nicole Marie Keating

If Looks Could Kill: Female Gazes as Guns in Thelma and Louise

Wendy Pearson

"Have You Considered a Gun?": Reading Due South as Ironic Commentary on the American Copy Hero

Linda Robertson

Air Wars: Lone Wolves and Civilized Violence at the Movies and Live from Baghdad

Anver Saloojee

Oppression, Guns, and Social Justice in Battleship Potemkin and 1900

Ellen Seiter

Mighty Morphin' Four-Year-Olds: Heroes and Gunplay at Preschool

Dan Streible

The Wonderful, Horrible Films of Paul Verhoeven

Lauren R. Tucker with Alan R. Fried

Do you have a permit for that?: The Gun as a Metaphor for the Transformation of G.I. Jane into G.I. Dick

Fred Turner

This is for Fighting, This is for Fun: Camerawork and Gunplay in Reality-Based Crime Shows

Cynthia Walker

The Gun as Star and the "U.N.C.L.E. Special"

Robin Wood

Life Against Death: A Lecture on Gregg Araki's The Doom Generation

Steven Woodward

Playing with Words, Speaking with Guns: The Case of Grosse Pointe Blank

Murray Pomerance

Afterword