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Birthday: Oct 28, 1968

Birthplace: Wellington, New Zealand

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A Critic's 13 Years on the Front Lines of Movie Mayhem

Baltimore Sun  film critic Stephen Hunter is an unrivaled master of his craft. This extraordinary collection includes the best of Hunter’s movie reviews, taking aim at one hundred of the most important (or notorious) violent films released since 1982. With an incisive, machine-gun style of writing, Hunter pulls no punches when he bashes  Blue Velvet, Tombstone,  and  Legends of the Fall . And he doesn’t hold back in his praise of  The Wild Bunch, Goodfellas,  and  Reservoir Dogs . Commenting on movies and society, Tarantino, Stone, and Peckinpah, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sly Stallone, and Glenn Close, Hunter cuts right to the bone in exposing our flaws, fantasies, and flat-out love affair with blood and gore. His reviews are classics, and this collection is like a straight shot of pure adrenaline—an electrifying jolt of truth and insight no moviegoer can ignore.

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Violent Screen: A Critic's 13 Years on the Front Lines of Movie Mayhem (Expedition) Paperback – December 1, 1996

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• Print length 416 pages
• Language English
• Publication date December 1, 1996
• Dimensions 5.5 x 1.04 x 8.5 inches
• ISBN-10 0385316526
• ISBN-13 978-0385316521
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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House Publishing Group; 1st ptg. edition (December 1, 1996)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0385316526
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0385316521
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.04 x 8.5 inches
• #1,944 in Movie Guides & Reviews
• #7,608 in Movie History & Criticism
• #11,443 in Popular Culture in Social Sciences

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Stephen Hunter won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism as well as the 1998 American Society of Newspaper Editors Award for Distinguished Writing in Criticism for his work as film critic at The Washington Post. He is the author of several bestselling novels, including Time to Hunt, Black Light, Point of Impact, and the New York Times bestsellers Havana, Pale Horse Coming, and Hot Springs. He lives in Baltimore.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A gréât discussion and breakdown of society’s fascination with violence in films.

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