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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... movie screens, like and unlike actual bloodshed in prior cultures? Does it create a current community of ritual belief in the divine powers of mythic heroes and demons? What effects might melodramatic violence have on a mass audience ...
... movie screens, like and unlike actual bloodshed in prior cultures? Does it create a current community of ritual belief in the divine powers of mythic heroes and demons? What effects might melodramatic violence have on a mass audience ...
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... movie,” the screen sometimes professes.) Yet theatre's sublimation of ritual bloodshed towards fictional violence still involves the investment of emotion and time by actors, directors, designers, technicians, and spectators. With ...
... movie,” the screen sometimes professes.) Yet theatre's sublimation of ritual bloodshed towards fictional violence still involves the investment of emotion and time by actors, directors, designers, technicians, and spectators. With ...
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... movies and television today, by all classes of society, compared with earlier periods of theatre. Like the best drama of ... movie and TV fiction? Or will we seek more complex engagements with the Real, beyond imaginary stereotypes and ...
... movies and television today, by all classes of society, compared with earlier periods of theatre. Like the best drama of ... movie and TV fiction? Or will we seek more complex engagements with the Real, beyond imaginary stereotypes and ...
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... movies perpetuates conventional American stereotypes of good and evil, with righteous justifications for violence, in the sacrificial rites of millions of movie spectators, in theatre seats worldwide—extending the missionary reach of ...
... movies perpetuates conventional American stereotypes of good and evil, with righteous justifications for violence, in the sacrificial rites of millions of movie spectators, in theatre seats worldwide—extending the missionary reach of ...
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... movies may encourage some extremists to become martyrs, to sacrifice their lives against the West as evil empire—while at the same time consoling Westerners (insecure in their virtual reality wealth) that “the good” is still on their ...
... movies may encourage some extremists to become martyrs, to sacrifice their lives against the West as evil empire—while at the same time consoling Westerners (insecure in their virtual reality wealth) that “the good” is still on their ...
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Theatres of Human Sacrifice: From Ancient Ritual to Screen Violence Mark Pizzato Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2004 |
Theatres of Human Sacrifice: From Ancient Ritual to Screen Violence Mark Pizzato Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2004 |
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