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Violence in motion pictures

Blood Sport

by Thomas Frank,

For a time in December, it looked as though the nation was finally ready to take on the gun culture. Perhaps you recall the moment: twenty grade-schoolers, along with their…

Habits of seeing

by Jennifer Szalai,

The unsettling films of Michael Haneke

By the book

by Harper’s Staff,

The tragic kingdom

by Fumie Yokota, Kimberly M. Thompson,

Burnt offerings

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Vewy, vewy viowent

by Harper’s Staff,

Fighting words

by Jane P. Tompkins,

Our savage spectacle

by John P. Sisk,

New performers in the theater of cruelty

“Indiana Jones”

by Harper’s Staff,

The abridged version

Reflections on movies

by Harold Clurman,

Happy in Cannes

by Irwin Shaw,

Violence in motion pictures

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Blood Sport

Habits of seeing

By the book

The tragic kingdom

Burnt offerings

Vewy, vewy viowent

Fighting words

Our savage spectacle

“Indiana Jones”

Reflections on movies

Happy in Cannes

September 1970

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