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...
| Основен автор: | Gr©ınstad, Asbj©ırn, (Author) |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2008]
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| Серия: |
Film culture in transition.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=283643 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Transfigurations. |
Съдържание:
- 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.