My class is about American Popular Culture of Violence in American Cinema. Please use all the materials I upload to write a response paper.The question is– One critic has claimed that the action film is “a key site for shifting configurations in gender identity in contemporary American culture.” In what ways can this be discerned in the action films that we viewed this week? And how does the screen violence contribute or not to this idea of gender identity?
Provide specific examples from the reading and films screened in your response.
reading:
1) James Kendrick. Film Violence: History, Ideology, Genre Wallflower Press, 2009. Page 88-95
2) Bruder, Margaret Ervin “Aestheticizing Violence”
3)Jeffords, Susan “Hard Bodies: The Reagan Heroes”

Screening:
Kill Bill, Volume One (Quentin Tarantino, 2003), Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988),Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1987),  Se7en (David Fincher, 1995)