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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... death, threatening our hopes of immortality with the inevitable violence of decay. We may avoid thinking about our own deaths, yet we are attracted to the performance of violence by others, involving lifethreatening fears or glimpses of ...
... death, threatening our hopes of immortality with the inevitable violence of decay. We may avoid thinking about our own deaths, yet we are attracted to the performance of violence by others, involving lifethreatening fears or glimpses of ...
Σελίδα 2
... death at the curtain call. Or they can be shown many more times as ghosts of themselves onscreen. But the reality of the investment as a sacrifice, for good or ill, for both players and watchers, is often lost. Its mortal wounds are ...
... death at the curtain call. Or they can be shown many more times as ghosts of themselves onscreen. But the reality of the investment as a sacrifice, for good or ill, for both players and watchers, is often lost. Its mortal wounds are ...
Σελίδα 3
... death of others vicariously. We identify with the struggle of the human offering or feel superior to the doomed victim. We explore the potential meanings of our own mortality, our being towards death, through the sacrifice of others ...
... death of others vicariously. We identify with the struggle of the human offering or feel superior to the doomed victim. We explore the potential meanings of our own mortality, our being towards death, through the sacrifice of others ...
Σελίδα 5
... death in 1999. Kubrick's film does offer a Brechtian critique of society, shifting sympathies and challenging viewers to rethink judicial punishment, through the explicit violence of Alex's gang and the hypocritical politics of his ...
... death in 1999. Kubrick's film does offer a Brechtian critique of society, shifting sympathies and challenging viewers to rethink judicial punishment, through the explicit violence of Alex's gang and the hypocritical politics of his ...
Σελίδα 8
... blood or life, except as stage blood and fictional death. The ritual audience of gods and ancestral ghosts, for whom the sacrifice was made, changed to involve 8 THEATRES OF HUMAN SACRIFICE THEATRE'S MATERIAL GHOSTS AND GODS.
... blood or life, except as stage blood and fictional death. The ritual audience of gods and ancestral ghosts, for whom the sacrifice was made, changed to involve 8 THEATRES OF HUMAN SACRIFICE THEATRE'S MATERIAL GHOSTS AND GODS.
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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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