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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Σελίδα viii
... Offerings Between Animal and Divine Lucifer Within Sacrifices That Cannot Be Refused The Sympathetic Inheritance of Evil Postmodern Flower War EXODOS 179 NOTES 185 BIBLIOGRAPHY 227 INDEX 253 Acknowledgments Parts of chapters 1, 3, and 4 ...
... Offerings Between Animal and Divine Lucifer Within Sacrifices That Cannot Be Refused The Sympathetic Inheritance of Evil Postmodern Flower War EXODOS 179 NOTES 185 BIBLIOGRAPHY 227 INDEX 253 Acknowledgments Parts of chapters 1, 3, and 4 ...
Σελίδα 1
... offerings of evolution, required to die, whether we reproduce or not, so that our species will advance to new generations beyond us.1 Theologically, we might believe in another, metaphysical plan for our lives. But each of us must bear ...
... offerings of evolution, required to die, whether we reproduce or not, so that our species will advance to new generations beyond us.1 Theologically, we might believe in another, metaphysical plan for our lives. But each of us must bear ...
Σελίδα 2
... offering's transcendent theatricality and pleasurable entertainment—unless a more tragic awareness of trauma, involving particular repressions and repetitions, is evoked. TRAGEDY IN MELODRAMA Displays of violence have become quite ...
... offering's transcendent theatricality and pleasurable entertainment—unless a more tragic awareness of trauma, involving particular repressions and repetitions, is evoked. TRAGEDY IN MELODRAMA Displays of violence have become quite ...
Σελίδα 3
... offering or feel superior to the doomed victim. We explore the potential meanings of our own mortality, our being towards death, through the sacrifice of others onscreen.2 The performance of violence, from ancient ritual to screen ...
... offering or feel superior to the doomed victim. We explore the potential meanings of our own mortality, our being towards death, through the sacrifice of others onscreen.2 The performance of violence, from ancient ritual to screen ...
Σελίδα 5
... offering onstage—a crossing of conventional expectations, especially in fantasies of revenge. Such complex drama is even more crucial today, with the multiplex screens and interactive media of our global marketplace shaping millions of ...
... offering onstage—a crossing of conventional expectations, especially in fantasies of revenge. Such complex drama is even more crucial today, with the multiplex screens and interactive media of our global marketplace shaping millions of ...
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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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