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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... cinema, through psychoanalytic theories and theatrical paradigms. How is the sublimation of human sacrifice today, on sports fields and movie screens, like and unlike actual bloodshed in prior cultures? Does it create a current ...
... cinema, through psychoanalytic theories and theatrical paradigms. How is the sublimation of human sacrifice today, on sports fields and movie screens, like and unlike actual bloodshed in prior cultures? Does it create a current ...
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... cinema and TV sports. The repetition of violence onstage or onscreen, in its fictional safety as “just play,” might appear quite distinct from actual human or animal bloodshed in religious sacrifice. (“No animals were harmed in the ...
... cinema and TV sports. The repetition of violence onstage or onscreen, in its fictional safety as “just play,” might appear quite distinct from actual human or animal bloodshed in religious sacrifice. (“No animals were harmed in the ...
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... cinema and television sometimes involve the mass audience in a communal working through of specific, personal and social traumas—when complex characters and tragic plots are presented onscreen. More often, though, we get a superficial ...
... cinema and television sometimes involve the mass audience in a communal working through of specific, personal and social traumas—when complex characters and tragic plots are presented onscreen. More often, though, we get a superficial ...
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... cinema ticket and video rental. The pages ahead attempt to theorize the potential of a more complex catharsis for movie audiences in the future—by comparing ancient rites and contests with significant examples of tragedy within ...
... cinema ticket and video rental. The pages ahead attempt to theorize the potential of a more complex catharsis for movie audiences in the future—by comparing ancient rites and contests with significant examples of tragedy within ...
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... cinema, via Bazin and Kristeva, in chapter 3.) Thus, the latent dissent within ritual became manifest in theatre, through the distinct persona of character impersonation. The actor as character showed the symptomatic, tragic flaw ...
... cinema, via Bazin and Kristeva, in chapter 3.) Thus, the latent dissent within ritual became manifest in theatre, through the distinct persona of character impersonation. The actor as character showed the symptomatic, tragic flaw ...
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