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Item Details
Title:
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TRANSFIGURATIONS
VIOLENCE, DEATH AND MASCULINITY IN AMERICAN CINEMA |
By: |
Asbjorn Gronstad |
Format: |
Electronic book text |
List price:
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£37.50 |
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ISBN 10: |
9048508509 |
ISBN 13: |
9789048508501 |
Publisher: |
AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
18 August, 2008 |
Series: |
Film Culture in Transition |
Pages: |
288 |
Description: |
Transfigurations: Violance, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema brings the problem of film violence into a renewed dialogue with contemporary theory |
Synopsis: |
In many senses, viewers have cut their teeth on the violence in American cinema: from Anthony Perkins slashing Janet Leigh in the most infamous of shower scenes; to the 1970s masterpieces of Martin Scorsese, Sam Peckinpah and Francis Ford Coppola; to our present-day undertakings in imagining global annihilations through terrorism, war, and alien grudges. Transfigurations brings our cultural obsession with film violence into a renewed dialogue with contemporary theory. Gronstad argues that the use of violence in Hollywood films should be understood semiotically rather than viewed realistically; Tranfigurations thus alters both our methodology of reading violence in films and the meanings we assign to them, depicting violence not as a self-contained incident, but as a convoluted network of our own cultural ideologies and beliefs. |
Illustrations: |
5 black and white illustrations |
Publication: |
Netherlands |
Imprint: |
Amsterdam University Press |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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