Violence in American Popular Culture: [2 volumes]

This timely collection provides a historical overview of violence in American popular culture from the Puritan era to the present and across a range of media.

Few topics are discussed more broadly today than violence in American popular culture. Unfortunately, such discussion is often unsupported by fact and lacking in historical context. This two-volume work aims to remedy that through a series of concise, detailed essays that explore why violence has always been a fundamental part of Ameri...