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TRANSFIGURATIONS
VIOLENCE, DEATH AND MASCULINITY IN AMERICAN CINEMA |
| By: |
Asbjorn Gronstad |
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Paperback |
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£21.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
908964010X |
| ISBN 13: |
9789089640109 |
| Publisher: |
AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 December, 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. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org. |
| Illustrations: |
5 black and white illustrations |
| Publication: |
Netherlands |
| Imprint: |
Amsterdam University Press |
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Returnable |
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