UID:
almahu_9947382573002882
Format:
1 online resource (274 pages) :
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illustrations
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-17141-0
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9786612171413
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90-485-0850-9
Series Statement:
Film culture in transition
Content:
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.
Note:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prolegomenon -- Introduction: Film Violence as Figurality -- I Screen Violence: Five Fallacies -- Empiricism -- Aristotelianism -- Aestheticism -- Mythologicism -- Mimeticism -- II Filming Death -- 1 The Transfigured Image -- 2 Narrating Violence, or, Allegories of Dying -- III Male Subjectivities at the Margins -- 3 Mean Streets: Death and Disfiguration in Hawks's Scarface -- 4 Kubrick's The Killing and the Emplotment of Death -- 5 Blood of a Poet: Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch -- 6 As I Lay Dying: Violence and Subjectivity in Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs -- 7 One-Dimensional Men: Fincher's Fight Club and the End of Masculinity -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Film Titles -- Index of Subjects -- Film Culture in Transition.
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Also available in print form.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-8964-010-X
Language:
English
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