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This essay proposes that the conspicuous appearance of freeze-frames in commercial cinema of the late 1960s and early 1970s figures the popularization of ecstatic fantasy in American culture during this period.
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This page is a summary of: Hitting the “Vérité Jackpot”: The Ecstatic Profits of Freeze-Framed Violence, Cinema Journal, January 2011, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/cj.2011.0059.
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