Books by Jake Horsley

The first volume in a study of 40 years of violent American cinema. Examining films such as "Psycho" and "A Clockwork Orange", it provides both a critical overview of the films themselves and a cultural study of the social and psychological factors relating to the demand for screen violence.

Jake Horsley seems to arrive from out of nowhere, yet here he is--an almost fully developed and only slightly stoned sensibility. . . He's a marvellous critic.--Pauline Kael