Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema
Abstract: 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
- Location
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
- ISBN
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9789089640109
- Extent
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Online-Ressource, 288 S.
- Language
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Englisch
- Notes
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Classification
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Öffentliche Darbietungen, Film, Rundfunk
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (where)
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Amsterdam
- (who)
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Amsterdam Univ. Press
- (when)
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2008
- Creator
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Grønstad, Asbjørn
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-320563
- Rights
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Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
- Last update
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15.08.2025, 7:32 AM CEST
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Associated
- Grønstad, Asbjørn
- Amsterdam Univ. Press
Time of origin
- 2008
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