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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press
2008.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Film culture in transition.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427554006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prolegomenon
- Introduction: Film Violence as Figurality
- I Screen Violence: Five Fallacies
- Empiricism
- Aristotelianism
- Aestheticism
- Mythologicism
- Mimeticism
- II Filming Death
- 1 The Transfigured Image
- 2 Narrating Violence, or, Allegories of Dying
- III Male Subjectivities at the Margins
- 3 Mean Streets: Death and Disfiguration in Hawks's Scarface
- 4 Kubrick's The Killing and the Emplotment of Death
- 5 Blood of a Poet: Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch
- 6 As I Lay Dying: Violence and Subjectivity in Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs
- 7 One-Dimensional Men: Fincher's Fight Club and the End of Masculinity
- Postscript
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Film Titles
- Index of Subjects
- Film Culture in Transition.
