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Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema

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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 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.

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791.43 GRO t

Publisher

: ., 2008

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9789089640109

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791.43

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Subject(s)

Performing Arts / Film
History & Criticism

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Asbjorn Gronstad

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umi

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https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/0e5b7b1a-0e5f-456b-a005-e1537dad319e

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