Download or read book Violence and Mediation in Contemporary Culture written by Ronald Bogue and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten essays explore violence in relation to notions of difference, representation, and power; and the role of mediation in providing communal space in which cultural differences can interplay without conflict. Among the topics are the semiotics of windows and television screens, gender relations in contemporary film, and the image of Mormons in popular literature. The fiction of Kafka, Lu Xun, Conrad Aiken, Toni Morrison, and Ronald Sukenick is also examined. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.