Theatres of Human Sacrifice: From Ancient Ritual to Screen ViolenceState University of New York Press, 18 Νοε 2004 - 275 σελίδες Contemporary debates about mass media violence tend to ignore the long history of staged violence in the theatres and rituals of many cultures. In Theatres of Human Sacrifice, Mark Pizzato relates the appeal and possible effects of screen violence todayin sports, movies, and television newsto specific sacrificial rites and performance conventions in ancient Greek, Aztec, and Roman culture. Using the psychoanalytic theories of Lacan, Kristeva, and Zðizûek, as well as the theatrical theories of Artaud and Brecht, the book offers insights into the ritual lures and effects of current mass media spectatorship, especially regarding the pleasures, purposes, and risks of violent display. Updating Aristotle's notion of catharsis, Pizzato identifies a sacrificial imperative within the human mind, structured by various patriarchal cultures and manifested in distinctive rites and dramas, with both positive and negative potential effects on their audiences. |
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... appear quite distinct from actual human or animal bloodshed in religious sacrifice. (“No animals were harmed in the making of this movie,” the screen sometimes professes.) Yet theatre's sublimation of ritual bloodshed towards fictional ...
... appear quite distinct from actual human or animal bloodshed in religious sacrifice. (“No animals were harmed in the making of this movie,” the screen sometimes professes.) Yet theatre's sublimation of ritual bloodshed towards fictional ...
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... appears within works of either genre.18 (Comedy and farce as violent genres will not be considered here, although tragicomedy will be, as characteristic of postmodern catharsis, with shocking switches of tone and open-ended plots.) As ...
... appears within works of either genre.18 (Comedy and farce as violent genres will not be considered here, although tragicomedy will be, as characteristic of postmodern catharsis, with shocking switches of tone and open-ended plots.) As ...
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... 27 Certain ritual moments also appear during the episodes in various plays. Orestes and Electra leave offerings at their dead father's tomb at the beginning of The Libation Bearers. Jocasta enters holding garlands and PROLOGOS 9.
... 27 Certain ritual moments also appear during the episodes in various plays. Orestes and Electra leave offerings at their dead father's tomb at the beginning of The Libation Bearers. Jocasta enters holding garlands and PROLOGOS 9.
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... As Euro-American theatre moves, in its history and performance structures, from various ancient rituals into the postmodern media of film and television, there might appear to be more freedom for individual 10 THEATRES OF HUMAN SACRIFICE.
... As Euro-American theatre moves, in its history and performance structures, from various ancient rituals into the postmodern media of film and television, there might appear to be more freedom for individual 10 THEATRES OF HUMAN SACRIFICE.
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From Ancient Ritual to Screen Violence Mark Pizzato. television, there might appear to be more freedom for individual creativity and spectator choices, with special-effects violence, multiplex screens, and remote controls. But film and ...
From Ancient Ritual to Screen Violence Mark Pizzato. television, there might appear to be more freedom for individual creativity and spectator choices, with special-effects violence, multiplex screens, and remote controls. But film and ...
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