Transfigurations violence, death and masculinity in American cinema
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 1970's masterpieces of Martin Scorsese, Sam Peckinpah and Francis Ford Coppola; to our present-day undertakings in imagining g...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press
2008.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Film culture in transition.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427554006719 |
| Summary: | 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 1970's 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. Grønstad 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations Also available in print form |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-260) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781282171411 9786612171413 9789048508501 |
