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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... film The Passion of the Christ. (But the triumph of Christ on the cross also bears a tragic dimension of sacrifice, as considered in chapter 5 here.) American film and TV melodramas—from westerns to war movies and sci-fi, from film ...
... film The Passion of the Christ. (But the triumph of Christ on the cross also bears a tragic dimension of sacrifice, as considered in chapter 5 here.) American film and TV melodramas—from westerns to war movies and sci-fi, from film ...
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... film melodramas. Instead, Aristotle advocated complex tragic dramas, where plot twists coincide with insightful ... film out of distribution in Britain and kept it out for a quarter of a century, until his death in 1999. Kubrick's film ...
... film melodramas. Instead, Aristotle advocated complex tragic dramas, where plot twists coincide with insightful ... film out of distribution in Britain and kept it out for a quarter of a century, until his death in 1999. Kubrick's film ...
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... film's own cathartic potential. Kubrick never explores the specific sources and consequences of Alex's brutality, beyond his dull-witted, indulgent parents and purely vengeful victims. This encouraged some spectators to perceive the ...
... film's own cathartic potential. Kubrick never explores the specific sources and consequences of Alex's brutality, beyond his dull-witted, indulgent parents and purely vengeful victims. This encouraged some spectators to perceive the ...
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... film theorists, but usually in the simplistic sense of “purging” emotion, whether the argument is made for or ... film studies, with the recent valorizing of excessive emotion in “women's melodramas.” Such films of the 1940s have been ...
... film theorists, but usually in the simplistic sense of “purging” emotion, whether the argument is made for or ... film studies, with the recent valorizing of excessive emotion in “women's melodramas.” Such films of the 1940s have been ...
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... Film Bodies” 150), and for showing how “the hysteric makes herself the limit of the world she brings into being” (Copjec 265).15 These views apply to what I would call tragic moments in melodrama—or in less violent, sentimental drama ...
... Film Bodies” 150), and for showing how “the hysteric makes herself the limit of the world she brings into being” (Copjec 265).15 These views apply to what I would call tragic moments in melodrama—or in less violent, sentimental drama ...
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