Transfigurations : violence, death and masculinity in American cinema / / Asbjørn Grønstad
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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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| 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 |
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Serie:
Film Culture in Transition