Book: Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema
Abstract
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. 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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Grønstad, Asbjørn: Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 2008. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/4110.
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author = {Grønstad, Asbjørn},
title = {Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema},
year = 2008,
doi = {10.25969/mediarep/4110},
address = {Amsterdam},
series = {Film Culture in Transition},
publisher = {Amsterdam University Press},
isbn = {9789089640109},
}
author = {Grønstad, Asbjørn},
title = {Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema},
year = 2008,
doi = {10.25969/mediarep/4110},
address = {Amsterdam},
series = {Film Culture in Transition},
publisher = {Amsterdam University Press},
isbn = {9789089640109},
}
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