This book updates existing studies dealing with media and violence while vastly expanding the scope of the field. The chapters contained in this handbook address key issues concerning the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of violence in film and media. In addition to providing analyses of representations of violence, they also critically discuss the phenomenology of the spectator, images of atrocity in international cinema, affect and documentary, violent video games, digital infrastructures, cruelty in art cinema, and media and state violence, among many other relevant topics. It provides key examples and methods for how we should continue thinking about this urgent issue.