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| Introduction | |
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| Film Noir: "All hail sleaze and evil" | |
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| Reservoir Dogs | |
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| Romeo Is Bleeding | |
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| The Last Seduction | |
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| Blood Simple | |
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| Pulp Fiction | |
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| The Grifters | |
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| Article: "Old Film Noir Flickers Ironically Through New Noir" | |
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| The Outlaw Life: "Sex and death entwined in style" | |
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| One False Move | |
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| Wild at Heart | |
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| Thelma and Louise | |
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| Kalifornia | |
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| Natural Born Killers | |
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| True Romance | |
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| Article: "Pulp Fiction Gets Reel: Slick Films Grow From Seedy Novels" | |
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| Sexual Obsession: "A mad yin-yang of fear and desire" | |
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| Fatal Attraction | |
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| Boxing Helena | |
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| Blue Velvet | |
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| Basic Instinct | |
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| Crimes of Passion | |
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| The Accused | |
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| Article: "A Clueless 'Basic Instinct' Glorifies Male Virility, Power While Denigrating Women" | |
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| "True" Criminals: "Not exactly Rhodes scholars to begin with" | |
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| Murder One | |
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| Brother's Keeper | |
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| The Krays | |
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| The Thin Blue Line | |
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| Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer | |
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| Horror: "In the moist and ferny jungle of the id" | |
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| The Silence of the Lambs | |
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| Manhunter | |
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| The Hitcher | |
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| The Stepfather | |
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| A Nightmare on Elm Street | |
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| The Evil Dead | |
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| Day of the Dead | |
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| Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday | |
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| Slumber Party Massacre | |
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| Article: "History's Psychopathic Killers Paralleled by Film Monsters" | |
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| Article: "Horrors! What Are Movies Coming To?" | |
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| Wise Guys: "Can the family that slays together stay together?" | |
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| GoodFellas | |
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| Prizzi's Honor | |
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| The Godfather, Part III | |
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| Bugsy | |
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| Scarface | |
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| The Untouchables | |
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| Harlem Nights | |
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| Cops-R-Us: "A lot of wrecked flesh around" | |
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| Lethal Weapon | |
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| Lethal Weapon 3 | |
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| 48 Hrs. | |
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| Blue Steel | |
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| The Dead Pool | |
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| In the Line of Fire | |
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| Article: "Hollywood's Shooting Stars" | |
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| Action-Adventure: "The myth of masculine force" | |
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| Die Hard | |
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| The Terminator | |
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| Terminator 2 | |
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| First Blood | |
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| Rambo: First Blood, Part II | |
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| Rambo III | |
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| True Lies | |
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| Article: "Guns Are Gold on Today's Silver Screen" | |
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| Article: "All Fired Up Over Big Guns: Hollywood's Still Promoting Myths" | |
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| The Wild, Wild West: "Death comes all at once, and how!" | |
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| Unforgiven | |
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| Dances With Wolves | |
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| Posse | |
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| Tombstone | |
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| Wyatt Earp | |
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| The Wild Bunch | |
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| The Future: "Smiling through the apocalypse" | |
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| Total Recall | |
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| RoboCop | |
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| The Road Warrior | |
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| Aliens | |
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| Blade Runner | |
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| War: "The charisma of brutality" | |
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| Full Metal Jacket | |
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| Platoon | |
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| The Killing Fields | |
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| Casualties of War | |
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| Article: "Changing Film Images of Vietnam" | |
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| Born on the Fourth of July | |
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| Glory | |
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| Article: "The Patriot Game: Two New Films Take Opposite Views of War" | |
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| Schindler's List | |
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| Shoah | |
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| Sophie's Choice | |
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| Article: "The Holocaust on the Screen" | |
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| Article: "Second Thoughts on Spielberg but No Second Guesses" | |
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| Race In America: "Rage, ambiguity and native ugliness" | |
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| A Soldier's Story | |
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| Malcolm X | |
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| Do the Right Thing | |
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| Boyz N the Hood | |
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| Betrayed | |
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| The Color Purple | |
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| Domestic Violence: "When love has fled" | |
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| What's Love Got to Do With It? | |
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| The War of the Roses | |
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| Sleeping with the Enemy | |
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| Article: "Crash! Go Movie Marriages" | |
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| The Hand That Rocks the Cradle | |
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| This Boy's Life | |
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| Legends of the Fall | |
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| Article: "Major-League Anger" | |
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| No Exit: "Lost in hell or some suburb thereof" | |
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| Last Exit to Brooklyn | |
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| Sid and Nancy | |
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| River's Edge | |
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| Glengarry Glen Ross | |
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| The King of Comedy | |
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| Short Cuts | |
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| Bad Lieutenant | |
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| Late Developments: "Slap another Maverick on my Hornet. I've got aliens to nuke!" | |
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| Article: "Films Under Fire" | |
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| The Usual Suspects | |
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| To Die For | |
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| GoldenEye | |
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| Heat | |
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| Broken Arrow | |
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| Fargo | |
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| Primal Fear | |
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| Taxi Driver | |
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| Independence Day | |
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| Courage Under Fire | |
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| Epilogue: Article: "Father of Darkness" | |