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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... 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 expression and temporary purging of current fears and desires ...
... 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 expression and temporary purging of current fears and desires ...
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... communal context of ancient sacrifices: with warring gods, human or animal scapegoats, cosmic cycles of destruction, and promises of transcendence. Christianity also provides the melodramatic villainy of Satan and his devils, along with ...
... communal context of ancient sacrifices: with warring gods, human or animal scapegoats, cosmic cycles of destruction, and promises of transcendence. Christianity also provides the melodramatic villainy of Satan and his devils, along with ...
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... communal power, are irreversibly lost (Melodramatic 205–206).17 He rejects “spurious appeals to synthetic ... communal goal of confirming a collective identity through shared and repeated actions.20 Theatre changed the oblatory ...
... communal power, are irreversibly lost (Melodramatic 205–206).17 He rejects “spurious appeals to synthetic ... communal goal of confirming a collective identity through shared and repeated actions.20 Theatre changed the oblatory ...
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... communal Other. The spectators also sacrificed their individual presence (submitting to the communal act of watching together) and received both personal pleasure and social instruction. Thus, the two goals of ritual sacrifice became ...
... communal Other. The spectators also sacrificed their individual presence (submitting to the communal act of watching together) and received both personal pleasure and social instruction. Thus, the two goals of ritual sacrifice became ...
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... communal womb of the ritual chorus. (I will apply Nietzsche's theory of this to modern cinema, via Bazin and Kristeva, in chapter 3.) Thus, the latent dissent within ritual became manifest in theatre, through the distinct persona of ...
... communal womb of the ritual chorus. (I will apply Nietzsche's theory of this to modern cinema, via Bazin and Kristeva, in chapter 3.) Thus, the latent dissent within ritual became manifest in theatre, through the distinct persona of ...
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Theatres of Human Sacrifice: From Ancient Ritual to Screen Violence Mark Pizzato Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2004 |
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