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Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema
Asbj?rn Gr?nstad
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Description for Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema
Paperback. Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema. Series: Film Culture in Transition. 288 pages, 5 black and white illustrations. Transfigurations: Violance, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema brings the problem of film violence into a renewed dialogue with contemporary theory. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 18. Weight: 504.
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. Gr�nstad 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 ... Read more
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. Gr�nstad 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Amsterdam, Netherlands
ISBN
9789089640109
SKU
V9789089640109
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About Asbj?rn Gr?nstad
[-]Asbj�rn Gr�nstad is professor of visual culture at the University of Stavanger, Norway.
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