Transfigurations : : violence, death and masculinity in American cinema /

Transfigurations : : violence, death and masculinity in American cinema / / Asbjrn Grnstad.

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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 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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Grnstad, Asbjrn.
Year of Publication:2008
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Film culture in transition.
Physical Description:1 online resource (274 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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