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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...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Grønstad, Asbjørn (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2008]
Collection:Film culture in transition.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.