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Title: | Transfigurations : Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema |
Authors: | Gronstad, Asbjorn |
Issue Date: | 2008 |
Publisher: | Amsterdam University Press |
Abstract: | 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. Gronstad 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. |
link: | http://www.oapen.org/record/340041 |
Keywords: | Arts;Culture and institutions;Motion pictures;Women: historical, geographic, persons treatment |
ISBN: | 9789089640109 |
Theme: | 教科書-人文類 |
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