Transfigurations : violence, death and masculinity in American cinema / / Asbjørn Grønstad

• Autore: Grønstad Asbjørn
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam University Press, 2008; Amsterdam, Netherlands : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 791.436552
• Soggetto topico: Violence in motion pictures - America; Death in motion pictures; Masculinity in motion pictures - America; Motion pictures, American
• Soggetto non controllato: women: historical, geographic, persons treatment; culture and instituten; culture and institutions; motion pictures; vrouwenstudies; film
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Transfigurations
• ISBN: 1-282-17141-0; 9786612171413; 90-485-0850-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996210308303316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Film Culture in Transition