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Transfigurations : violence, death and masculinity in American cinema /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2008]
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| Colección: | Film culture in transition.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.