Transfigurations : violence, death and masculinity in American cinema

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

"Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema suggests a fundamental rethinking of the notion of violence in Hollywood cinema, and discloses the methodological and theoretical inadequacies of a series of common approaches to screen violence. More specifically, the book c...

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Main Author: Grønstad, Asbjørn (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2008]
Series:Film culture in transition.
Subjects:
Violence in motion pictures.
Death in motion pictures.
Masculinity in motion pictures.
Motion pictures, American.
The arts.
Film, TV and radio.
Films, cinema.
Film theory and criticism.
Society and social sciences.
Society and culture: general.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > General.
Death in motion pictures
Masculinity in motion pictures
Motion pictures, American
Violence in motion pictures
Gewalt > Motiv
Tod > Motiv
Männlichkeit > Motiv
Film
Våld i filmen.
Manlighet i filmen.
Våld på film.
Män på film.
Mansrollen på film.
Film.
USA
USA.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: film violence as figurality
  • Screen violence: five fallacies. Empiricism ; Aristotelianism ; Aestheticism ; Mythologicism ; Mimeticism
  • Filming death. The transfigured image
  • Narrating violence, or, allegories of dying
  • Male subjectivities at the margins. Mean streets: death and disfiguration in Hawks's Scarface
  • Kubrick's The killing and the emplotment of death
  • Blood of a poet: Peckinpah's The wild bunch
  • As I lay dying: violence and subjectivity in Tarantino's Reservoir dogs
  • One-dimensional men: Fincher's Fight club and the end of masculinity.

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