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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... fears or glimpses of death, onstage and onscreen. (The popularity of America's Most Wanted, Cops, Fear Factor, and Survivor as “reality TV,” plus an overdose of that with the World Trade Center and Pentagon plane sacrifices of blood and ...
... fears or glimpses of death, onstage and onscreen. (The popularity of America's Most Wanted, Cops, Fear Factor, and Survivor as “reality TV,” plus an overdose of that with the World Trade Center and Pentagon plane sacrifices of blood and ...
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... fear, suffering, and conflict. But I would argue that today, like in ancient Greece, the best in theatre and popular ... fears. This book seeks to redefine Aristotle's notion of catharsis in relation to modern stage and screen violence ...
... fear, suffering, and conflict. But I would argue that today, like in ancient Greece, the best in theatre and popular ... fears. This book seeks to redefine Aristotle's notion of catharsis in relation to modern stage and screen violence ...
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... fear, suffering, and death of others vicariously. We identify with the struggle of the human offering or feel ... fears and desires through normative, melodramatic violence (addictively masking deeper traumas): a purely good hero saves ...
... fear, suffering, and death of others vicariously. We identify with the struggle of the human offering or feel ... fears and desires through normative, melodramatic violence (addictively masking deeper traumas): a purely good hero saves ...
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... fears forming the basis of the mind in early infancy, as well as later in life. With maturity, such identifications can become complex, depressive, yet integrative projections and introjections (in Kleinian terms).6 But I would argue ...
... fears forming the basis of the mind in early infancy, as well as later in life. With maturity, such identifications can become complex, depressive, yet integrative projections and introjections (in Kleinian terms).6 But I would argue ...
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... fear.13 I will also demonstrate how other paradigms of theatre (mask, costume, and setting, plus performance, audience, and choral spaces, as well as mimesis and script) relate to both ritual and screen violence. There is no easy cure ...
... fear.13 I will also demonstrate how other paradigms of theatre (mask, costume, and setting, plus performance, audience, and choral spaces, as well as mimesis and script) relate to both ritual and screen violence. There is no easy cure ...
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