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Distributed for Amsterdam University Press

Asbjørn Grønstad

Transfigurations

Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema

288 pages,  6-1/3 x 9-2/3 
Series: Amsterdam University Press - Film Culture in Transition

Cloth $77.50

ISBN: 9789089640307   Published December 2008
For sale only in the United States, its dependencies, the Philippines, and Canada

Paper $35.00

ISBN: 9789089640109   Published December 2008
For sale only in the United States, its dependencies, the Philippines, and Canada

Acknowledgments
 
Prolegomenon
 
Introduction: Film Violence as Figurality
 
I   Screen Violence: Five Fallacies
    Empiricism
    Aristotelianism
    Aestheticism
    Mythologicism
    Mimeticism
 
II  Filming Death
1  The Transfigured Image
2  Narrating Violence, or, Allegories of Dying
 
III Male Subjectivities at the Margins
3  Mean Streets: Death and Disfiguration in Hawk's Scarface
4  Kubrick's The Killing and the Emplotment of Death
5  Blood of a Poet: Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch
6  As I Lay Dying: Violence and Subjectivity in Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs
7  One-Dimensional Men: Fincher's Fight Club and the End of Masculinity
 
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Film Titles
Index of Subjects


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