Transfigurations(English, Paperback, Gronstad Asbjorn A.)

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Transfigurations(English, Paperback, Gronstad Asbjorn A.) is written by Gronstad Asbjorn A. and published by Pallas Publications. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 908964010X (ISBN 10) and 9789089640109 (ISBN 13).

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. Gronstad 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.