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Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema

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dc.creatorGrønstad, Asbjørn
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-18T12:19:31Z
dc.date.available2019-07-18T12:19:31Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractIn 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.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/4110
dc.identifier.doi10.5117/9789089640109
dc.identifier.isbnisbn:9789089640109
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/4873
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAmsterdam University Press
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
dc.relation.isReviewedByurl:https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/7001
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
dc.subjectGewaltdarstellungde
dc.subjectKinode
dc.subjectGewaltde
dc.subjectVerbrechende
dc.subjectKulturde
dc.subjectTodde
dc.subjectKriminalitätde
dc.subjectSemiotikde
dc.subjectSymbolikde
dc.subjectwomenen
dc.subjectpersons treatmenten
dc.subjectcultureen
dc.subjectmotion picturesen
dc.subjectfilmen
dc.subjectcinemaen
dc.subjectdeathen
dc.subjectviolenceen
dc.subjectcrimeen
dc.subjectsemioticsen
dc.subjectsymbolismen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.workSCARFACE
dc.subject.workTHE KILLING
dc.subject.workTHE WILD BUNCH
dc.subject.workRESERVOIR DOGS
dc.subject.workFIGHT CLUB
dc.titleTransfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinemaen
dc.typebook
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local.academicbookseriesFilm Culture in Transition
local.coverpage2021-05-29T01:25:44
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