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UNINA9910139802203321 |
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Autore |
Grønstad Asbjørn |
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Titolo |
Transfigurations : violence, death and masculinity in American cinema / / Asbjørn Grønstad |
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Amsterdam University Press, 2008 |
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Amsterdam, Netherlands : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2008] |
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©2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-17141-0 |
9786612171413 |
90-485-0850-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Film Culture in Transition |
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Soggetti |
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Violence in motion pictures - America |
Death in motion pictures |
Masculinity in motion pictures - America |
Motion pictures, American |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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