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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... involving our mass-media warriors and godlike stars? Life sacrifices each of us. In a biological sense, we are offerings of evolution, required to die, whether we reproduce or not, so that our species will advance to new generations ...
... involving our mass-media warriors and godlike stars? Life sacrifices each of us. In a biological sense, we are offerings of evolution, required to die, whether we reproduce or not, so that our species will advance to new generations ...
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... involves the investment of emotion and time by actors, directors, designers, technicians, and spectators. With cinema ... involving particular repressions and repetitions, is evoked. TRAGEDY IN MELODRAMA Displays of violence have become ...
... involves the investment of emotion and time by actors, directors, designers, technicians, and spectators. With cinema ... involving particular repressions and repetitions, is evoked. TRAGEDY IN MELODRAMA Displays of violence have become ...
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... involve the mass audience in a 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 ...
... involve the mass audience in a 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 ...
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... involve a more complete exploration of the sources and 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 ...
... involve a more complete exploration of the sources and 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 ...
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... involving perverse, bisexual viewing positions (Williams, “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 ...
... involving perverse, bisexual viewing positions (Williams, “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 ...
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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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