Grønstad, Asbjørn, author.
Transfigurations : violence, death and masculinity in American cinema / Asbjørn Grønstad.
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2008]
©2008
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Film culture in transition
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"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 challenges the traditional understanding of the concept of memesis with regard to film fiction in general and film violence in particular. Transfigurations deconstructs the idea that the film image is a transparent entity, and proposes instead that filmicity is always opaque. In turn, this argument leads to the conclusion that all film fiction is amimetic, and that it entails processes of transfiguration rather representation, aesthetic theorization rather than mimetic reflection. By considering film violence not as a mirror but as a trope, this book shows how the violence in films may be interpreted as a discourse on death and masculinity."--Jacket
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.
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Violence in motion pictures.
Death in motion pictures.
Masculinity in motion pictures.
Motion pictures, American.
Film.
Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
Mort au cinéma.
Cinéma américain.
Violence au cinéma.
Masculinité au cinéma.
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.
Gewalt
Tod
Männlichkeit
Våld i filmen.
Manlighet i filmen.
Våld på film.
Män på film.
Mansrollen på film.
USA
Culture and institutions
Motion pictures
Women: historical, geographic, persons treatment
Culture and instituten
Vrouwenstudies
Film culture in transition.
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