Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema, Second Edition
Asbjørn Grønstad
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.
Kateqoriyalar:
İl:
2008
Nəşr:
2nd ed.
Nəşriyyat:
Amsterdam University Press
Dil:
english
Səhifələr:
278
ISBN 10:
908964010X
ISBN 13:
9789089640109
Seriyalar:
Film Culture in Transition
Fayl:
EPUB, 1.58 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2008