Transfigurations : : violence, death and masculinity in American cinema / / Asbjrn Grnstad.
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 g...
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| Superior document: | Film culture in transition |
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Film culture in transition.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (274 pages) :; illustrations |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-260) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 1282171410 9786612171413 9048508509 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Asbjrn Grnstad. |