THE IMAGE OF VIOLENCE

in Literature, Media, and Society

Proceedings 2007

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Preliminary Program 2007

 

The Image of Violence II

 

Proceedings of the Annual Conference - 2007

Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery

 

 

Table of Contents

 

 

Culture                                                                                                                                            1

 

      Acceptable Violence: How the Cowboys “Civilized” the U.S.                                   3

      Kelly Jensen, Samford University

 

      The Rhetoric of “Dress Codes”: Ohura Nobuyuki’s                                                    8      
      Embracing Perspectives
and the Representation of the Emperor

      Taisuke Edamura, McGill University

 

      Violence and Sexuality: An Analysis of Women’s Professional Wrestling         12

      Cheryl Pawlowski, University of Northern Colorado

      Diane Matuschka, University of North Florida

     

      Want to Make You Scream: Hardcore Violence in San Diego, 1981-83               17

      Matthew Smith-Lahrman, Dixie State College of Utah

 

      “Determined Without Being Ruthless”: Enunciative Productivity in                   23

      Raekwon’s Only Built for Cuban Linx

      Sean Allan, University of California - Davis

       A Statistical Analysis of Super Bowl Scores: Ten Powerful  Last-Digit Numbers          31

       Richard Krinsky, Colorado State University - Pueblo

       Jolene Hausman, Colorado State University - Pueblo

 

      Virtual Violence, Mass Media, and Makeshift Memorials                                          43

      Gene Burd, University of Texas

 

      The Matter of America: Violent Conflict and Identity in Film                                   51

      Barry Jean Ancelet, University of Louisiana - Lafayette

 

      Political Violence in Children’s Literature: Juan Bobo, Jibaros,                           60

      Postcoloniality and Frantz Fanon’s Theory of Violence

      Enid Sepulveda Rodriguez, Colorado State University - Pueblo

 

     

      Social Reaction in the Case of Violence: Religious and National Symbols             68

      in the 1980s Underground Art and Literature in Poland

      Anna Niedźwiedź, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland; SUNY Buffalo -

            Kosciuszko Foundation Visiting Professor

 

      Bloodlust: A History of Vampirism (Dracula) with Media and                                 76

      Societal Impacts

      Lisa Moberly, Colorado State University - Pueblo

 

      Blood on the Saddle and Blood on the Ground                                                         81

      Martha J. Craig, Bradley University

 

      The Violence of Metaphors: Conceptual Rearrangement                                       87

      and Dead Metaphors

      Delilah R. Caldwell, Southwestern College

 

Society                                                                                                                                        91

 

      Homeless and Violent: My Day with Kevin                                                                  92

      Kurt Borchard, University of Nebraska - Kearney

 

      Reduction or Increase in Violence? Virilio, Vattimo, and the                                100

      Meaning of Electronic Media

      Andreas Michel, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

 

      Anti-Violence Education in the Classroom                                                                104       J.

      Kole Kleeman, University of Central Oklahoma

 

      Rape as Irreversible Violence: An Existentialist Interpretation                            108

      Eric Migernier, Marshall University

 

      The Race to Get My Child Ahead of Yours: The New Child Abuse                     112

      Jamie D. Whitman-Smithe, Wesley College

 

   Social Unrest in France: Representations of a Complex Reality                         116

      Christelle Rolland, Pomona College

 

      Aggression in Religious Schism                                                                                  120

      Dan W. Forsyth, Colorado State University - Pueblo

 

      Biomedical Violence: Research on Vulnerable Populations                                123

      Christopher M. Caldwell, Southwestern College

 

      Photographic Representations and the Culture of Violence in                           129

      World War One France

      Donald E. English

 

      Murdering Women: Mass Media, Violence, and the                                                164

      Case of Nellie May Madison

      Kathleen A. Cairns, Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo     Indirect Health Consequences of War                                                                        171

      The Image of Women: An Ethnographic Survey                                                               178

      Sarai M. Trujillo, Colorado State University - Pueblo

 

      Silence, the Scaffold, and the Semiotics of Judicial Violence in                         182

      Late Medieval England

      Katherine Royer, California State University - Stanislaus

 

Literature                                                                                                                                  192

 

      Violence in the Work of Martin Amis                                                                            193

      Brian Finney, California State University - Long Beach

 

      Violence and Ritual in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Novella Die Panne                      198

      Janice W. Ancker, University of Kansas

 

      Poems out of Steel with Words like Gunfire: “Violent Language”                      202

      and the “Language of Violence” in the Early Works of Ernst Jünger

      Jörg Meindl, University of Kansas

 

      Images of Violence in American Utopia and Dystopia: An Examination of      209

      Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia and Scott Russell Sanders’ Terrarium

      Cole Gelrod, Humboldt State University

 

      Violence Can Be Subtle: Enthymemes Shape an Anti-War Message in            215

      Empire of the Sun

      Betty B. Brown, University of Northern Colorado

 

      Violence and Social Order in English Renaissance Drama                                  222

      William E. Sheidley, Colorado State University - Pueblo

 

      Politicizing Identities: Language, Violence, and Racial Determination in         227

      Paulo Lins’ Cidade de Deus

      Sandro R. Barros, Western Illinois University

 

      Historical Violence as a Subtext to Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s Der Verdacht        235

      Vera B. Profit, University of Notre Dame

 

      “Men Must Not Cut Down Trees”: Septimus Smith’s Madness of Nature        239

      Sandy Hudock, Colorado State University - Pueblo

 

      J. W. Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther:                                                               250

      An Esthetics of Violent Nature                                                                                     

      Ralph W. Buechler, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

 

      Guilty of Violence…By Reason of Humanity:                                                           255

      Remarque’s Short Story “The Enemy”

      G. Scott Seeger, University of Kansas

 

      Militaristic and Pacifistic Narratives in the Weimar Republic:                               261

      Jünger`s and Remarque`s Struggle with the World War I Experience

      Regine Kroh, University of Kansas

 

      Armed and Dangerous: Emancipated Women Respond to Sexual                    264

      Aggression in Maria Janitschek’s Königin Judith and

      Ein Modernes Weib”

      Stephen Wayne Smith, Brigham Young University

 

      Head-hunting Witch Doctor, Blood-sucking Porn Star                                          267

      (and Other Portrayals of Grendel’s Mother)

      Karen Emanuelson, Colorado State University - Pueblo

 

      Violence Foreshadowed: Deception and Denial in Melville’s                               273

      “Benito Cereno”

      William Lansing Brown, Mesa State College

 

      The Poet and His Art—A Sexualized and Violent Relationship in                       276

      Marie Eugenie delle Grazie’s Drama Der Schatten (1901)

      Jared Löhrmann, Brigham Young University

 

      Hurling Words into the Darkness: Black Boy’s Defensive                                    279

      Rhetorical Acts

      Amanda Conrad, University of Kansas

 

      The Image of Violence in Luna caliente by Mempo Giardinelli                             283

      Kenton V. Stone

 

      Images of Violence in Dostoevsky’s Work                                               286

      Grzegorz Danowski, University of Western Ontario

 

      Border Invasions and Disparities of Power: The Rhetoric of Violence             293

      and the Fantastic Poetics of the Body Violated in the Late Romantics

      Cristine Soliz, Diné College

 

      Anti-Semitism in German Children’s Picture Books                                               302

      Angela Gulielmetti, University of Southern Main

 
 

 

 

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