Grønstad (244 results)

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. sewn PAPERBACK, near fine, slightest wear. GRØNSTAD, ASBJØRN. Transfigurations: violence, death and masculinity in American cinema. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008, 274pp., . 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. - Hawks's Scarface, Kubrik's The Killing, Peckiinpah's The Wild Bunch, Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, Fincher's Fight Club. - "Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema suggests a fundamental rethinking of the notion of violence in Hollywood cinema, and discloses the methodological and theoretical inadequacies of a series of common approaches to screen violence. More specifically, the book challenges the traditional understanding of the concept of memesis with regard to film fiction in general and film violence in particular. Transfigurations deconstructs the idea that the film image is a transparent entity, and proposes instead that filmicity is always opaque. In turn, this argument leads to the conclusion that all film fiction is amimetic, and that it entails processes of transfiguration rather representation, aesthetic theorization rather than mimetic reflection. By considering film violence not as a mirror but as a trope, this book shows how the violence in films may be interpreted as a discourse on death and masculinity." - CONTENTS: Introduction: film violence as figurality -- I: Screen violence: five fallacies -- Empiricism -- Aristotelianism -- Aestheticism -- Mythologicism -- Mimeticism -- II: Filming death -- The transfigured image -- Narrating violence, or, allegories of dying -- III: 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. ISBN 9789089640109 17.70. …

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Paperback. Condition: Fine. A bright, clean copy. ; Amsterdam University Press - Film Culture in Transition; 9.30 X 6.20 X 0.70 inches; 274 pages.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:9789089640109. …

Condition: New. 1st edition. Paperback, F. 277pp, index, a fine copy. A study of the meaning of screen violence in American cinema in which the author considers screen violence not a mirror, but a trope - a discourse on death & masculinity. 525 grams.

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Condition: as new. Amsterdam :Amsterdam University Press, 2008. Paperback. 274 pp. (Film Culture in translation). Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-260) and indexes. - 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. Grønstad 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. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9789089640109. Keywords : FiLM, Violence.…

Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Cinema and Agamben brings together a group of established scholars of film and visual culture to explore the nexus between the moving image and the influential work of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. Including two original texts by Agamben himself, published here for the first time in English translation, these essays facilitate a unique multidisciplinary conversation that fundamentally rethinks the theory and praxis of cinema. In their resourceful analyses of the work of artists such as David Claerbout, Jean-Luc Godard, Philippe Grandrieux, Michael Haneke, Jean Rouch, and others, the authors put to use a range of key concepts from Agamben's rich body of work, like biopolitics, de-creation, gesture, potentiality and profanation. Sustaining the eminently interdisciplinary scope of Agamben's writing, the essays all bespeak the importance of Agamben's thought for forging new beginnings in film theory and for remedying the elegiac proclamations of the death of cinema so characteristic of the current moment.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8.5 x 6 inches. xi, 291 pp. Color photographic illustrations. Black cloth lettered in silver. Illustrated jacket. Light edge-wear, rubbing. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. In mylar sleeve.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The first book of its kind, Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing engages broadly with the often too neglected yet significant questions of gesture in visual culture. In our turbulent mediasphere where images as lenses bearing on their own circumstances are constantly mobilized to enact symbolic forms of warfare and where they get entangled in all kinds of cultural conflicts and controversies, a turn to the gestural life of images seems to promise a particularly pertinent avenue of intellectual inquiry. The complex gestures of the artwork remain an under-explored theoretical topos in contemporary visual culture studies. In visual art, the gestural appears to be that which intervenes between form and content, materiality and meaning. But as a conceptual force it also impinges upon the very process of seeing itself. As a critical and heuristic trope, the gestural galvanizes many of the most pertinent areas of inquiry in contemporary debates and scholarship in visual culture and related disciplines: ethics (images and their values and affects), aesthetics (from visual essentialism to transesthetics and synesthesia), ecology (iconoclastic gestures and spaces of conflict), and epistemology (questions of the archive, memory and documentation). Offering fresh perspectives on many of these areas, Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing will be intensely awaited by readers from and across several disciplines, such as anthropology, linguistics, performance, theater, film and visual studies. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Condition: New. Editor(s): Gustafsson, Henrik; Gronstad, Asbjorn. Num Pages: 264 pages, 16 bw illus. BIC Classification: APFA; HPN; HPQ; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 366. . 2015. Illustrated. paperback. . . . . …

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Book has moderate rubbing and smudging to covers, light wear to edges with a few small bumps to top and bottom edges, pencil underlining and writing to text. otherwise in good condition, strong binding, bright pages with sharp text; cosmetic wear with markings to pages but a decent, structurally sound reading/reference copy.…

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Condition: New. Tracingthe rise of extreme art cinema across films from Lars von Trier's The Idiots to Michael Haneke's Cache, Asbjorn Gronstad revivesthe debate about the role of negation and aesthetics, andreframes the concept of spectatorship in ethical terms." Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; APFN; HPQ; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. . . 2012. Paperback. . . . . …

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