Transfigurations : 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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Amsterdam University Press,
[2008]
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| Series: | Film culture in transition.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.