Transfigurations [electronic resource] : violence, death and masculinity in American cinema / Asbjørn Grønstad.

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...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via JSTOR)
Main Author:	Grønstad, Asbjørn (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2008]
Series:	Film culture in transition.
Subjects:	Violence in motion pictures. Death in motion pictures. Masculinity in motion pictures. Motion pictures, American.