Table of Contents: “…Violence in popular film-doing it wrong and doing it right -- Django unchained: how not to do screen violence -- From Taxi driver to The brave one: what have we learned? …”

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Table of Contents: “…1976 -- How to control the press: rules of the game, the government publicity machine, and financial incentives -- The year Mexico stopped laughing: the press, satire, and censorship in Mexico City -- From Catholic schoolboy to guerrilla: Mario Mendez and the radical press -- How to control the press (badly): censorship and regional newspapers -- The real Artemio Cruz: the press baron, gangster journalism, and the regional press -- The taxi driver: civil society, journalism, and Oaxaca's El Chapulín -- The singer: civil society, radicalism, and acción in Chihuahua.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Keith Goshorn -- Cybersubjectivity and cinematic being / Scott Bukatman -- Televisual bodies : television and the impulse-image / Philip Turetzky -- The road to romance and ruin : the crisis of authority in Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish / Jon Lewis -- Fellini's Casanova : male hystrionics and phallackcentrism / Frank Burke -- Decadence, violence and the decay of history : notes on the spectacular representation of death in narrative film, 1965 to 1990 / Catherine Russell -- Thatcher's Orwell : the spectacle of excess in Brazil / Tony Williams -- The American apocalypse : Scorcese's Taxi Driver / Christopher Sharrett -- Ramble city : postmodernism and Blade Runner / Giuliana Bruno -- Heroic apocalypse : Mad Max, mythology, and the millennium / Mick Broderick.…”

Table of Contents: “…-- The gene myth : toads, giraffes, and fraud -- 'The happiness gene' : mindsets, optimism, laughter -- 'The talent gene' : genius, motivation, and taxi drivers -- 'The God gene' : genesis, Jedi, and Hollywood -- 'The parenting gene' : nature, nurture, and naughtiness -- 'Bad genes' : abusers, criminals, and victims -- 'The mortality gene' : hearts, famines, and grandparents -- 'The fat gene' : diet, worms, and wine -- 'The cancer gene' : autism, toxins, and babies -- 'The gay gene' : sex, hormones, and the brain -- 'The fidelity gene' : pleasure, pain, and the G spot -- Bacteria genes : bugs, poo, and you -- Identical genes : clones, identity, and the future.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Hollywood and Vietnam : John Wayne and Jane Fonda as discourse / Michael Anderegg -- "All the animals come out at night" : Vietnam meets Noir in Taxi Driver / Cynthia J. Fuchs -- Vietnam and the Hollywood genre film : inversions of American mythology in The deer hunter and Apocalypse now / John Hellmann -- "Charlie don't surf" : race and culture in the Vietnam War films / David Desser -- Finding a language for Vietnam in the action-adventure genre / Ellen Draper -- Narrative patterns and mythic trajectories in mid-1980s Vietnam movies / Tony Williams -- Rambo's Vietnam and Kennedy's new frontier / John Hellmann -- Gardens of stone, Platoon, and Hamburger hill : ritual and remembrance / Judy Lee Kinney…”

Table of Contents: “…The songs of Remmy Ongala & the orchestra Super Matimila / Werner Graebner -- Women & modern African popular fiction / Jane Bryce -- Either one or the other : images of women in Nigerian television / Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi -- Women in cultural work : the fate of the Kamĩrĩ̃thũ people's theatre in Kenya / Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o -- Politics & urban folklore in Nigeria / Ropo Sekoni -- The world of the Yoruba taxi driver : an interpretative approach to vehicle slogans / Olatunde Bayo Lawuyi -- The 'thing' & its doubles in Cameroonian cartoons / Achille Mbembe -- Sophiatown : the view from afar / Ulf Hannerz -- Africa civilized, Africa uncivilized : local culture, world system & South African music / Veit Erlmann.…”

Table of Contents: “…: aspects of masculinity in some Vietnam War films / John Newsinger -- Going solo : performance and identity in New York, New York, and Taxi driver / Ken Page -- One last chance : masculinity, ethnicity and the Greek Cypriot community of London / Panikos Panayi…”

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Table of Contents: “…Singular Point of View (The Graduate, Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now, Come and See, Lebanon, Good Kill) -- 6. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Sorkin -- Anatomy of a murder : life and art in the courtroom / Jeanine Basinger -- Columbia and the counterculture : trilogy of defeat / Sybil Delgaudio -- Taxi driver : bringing home the war / Les Keyser -- Lawrence of Arabia, 1962, 1989 : "It Looks Damn Good" / Gene D. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Are There Alien Taxi Drivers? -- 2. Would Alien Contact Change Us All? …”
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