Transfigurations : Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema

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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Main Author: Grønstad, Asbjørn (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Amsterdam University Press 2008
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