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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... Roman, Aztec, and NFL “Gladiators” 47 Sacrificial Shades The Metaphysics of Script and Score Im-mortal Dances, Costumes, and Props Star Powers Audience Participation and Alienation Melodramatic or Tragic Catharsis Contents.
... Roman, Aztec, and NFL “Gladiators” 47 Sacrificial Shades The Metaphysics of Script and Score Im-mortal Dances, Costumes, and Props Star Powers Audience Participation and Alienation Melodramatic or Tragic Catharsis Contents.
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... mortal wounds are overlooked or justified through the offering's transcendent theatricality and pleasurable entertainment—unless a more tragic awareness of trauma, involving particular repressions and repetitions, is evoked. TRAGEDY IN ...
... mortal wounds are overlooked or justified through the offering's transcendent theatricality and pleasurable entertainment—unless a more tragic awareness of trauma, involving particular repressions and repetitions, is evoked. TRAGEDY IN ...
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... mortal and transcendent, must have been crucial to ritual even prior to theatre's invention. Both ritual goals, of offering and communion, were fueled by their opposite—some degree of disbelief and dissent, which made the collective act ...
... mortal and transcendent, must have been crucial to ritual even prior to theatre's invention. Both ritual goals, of offering and communion, were fueled by their opposite—some degree of disbelief and dissent, which made the collective act ...
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... mortal body. But cinema and television return their audiences and actors to a ritual of im-mortal sacrifice (of mortal submission to the immortal illusion). This submission, especially with the melodramatic formula of an individual hero ...
... mortal body. But cinema and television return their audiences and actors to a ritual of im-mortal sacrifice (of mortal submission to the immortal illusion). This submission, especially with the melodramatic formula of an individual hero ...
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