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Grønstad, Asbjørn. - Transfigurations : violence, death and masculinity in American cinema.

Amsterdam :Amsterdam University Press, 2008. Paperback. 274 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. (Film Culture in translation). Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-260) and indexes. - 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. ISBN 9789089640109.
EUR 18.00 [Appr.: US$ 21.13 | £UK 15.75 | JP¥ 3126] Book number #278987

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