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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... Effect as Cathartic Cures Choral Born Killers Male and Female Monsters FOUR Brechtian and Aztec Violence in Zoot Suit 111 Patriarchal Sacrifices Brechtian Ixiptla Onscreen Audience Effects of the Perverse Superego FIVE Martyrs and ...
... Effect as Cathartic Cures Choral Born Killers Male and Female Monsters FOUR Brechtian and Aztec Violence in Zoot Suit 111 Patriarchal Sacrifices Brechtian Ixiptla Onscreen Audience Effects of the Perverse Superego FIVE Martyrs and ...
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... effects might melodramatic violence have on a mass audience—with purely good and evil forces battling apocalyptically onscreen—especially after September 11, 2001, and the subsequent “war on terrorism” in our new millennium? Is a ...
... effects might melodramatic violence have on a mass audience—with purely good and evil forces battling apocalyptically onscreen—especially after September 11, 2001, and the subsequent “war on terrorism” in our new millennium? Is a ...
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... effects of dramatic violence, as shown on millions of cinema screens today. My goal is not to attack melodrama itself as a villain, nor to promote live theatre and ancient ritual as generically superior to screen media. Indeed, I will ...
... effects of dramatic violence, as shown on millions of cinema screens today. My goal is not to attack melodrama itself as a villain, nor to promote live theatre and ancient ritual as generically superior to screen media. Indeed, I will ...
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... effects: promoting communal strength and individual courage. Yet it typically does this by evoking paranoid terrors and projecting pure evil upon certain vilified types, focusing the abject mourning of loss into blame against others and ...
... effects: promoting communal strength and individual courage. Yet it typically does this by evoking paranoid terrors and projecting pure evil upon certain vilified types, focusing the abject mourning of loss into blame against others and ...
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... effects of violence, through the sacrificial offering onstage—a crossing of conventional expectations, especially in fantasies of revenge. Such complex drama is even more crucial today, with the multiplex screens and interactive media ...
... effects of violence, through the sacrificial offering onstage—a crossing of conventional expectations, especially in fantasies of revenge. Such complex drama is even more crucial today, with the multiplex screens and interactive media ...
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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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