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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... performance of violence in various cultures, from ancient human and animal sacrifices to modern sports and cinema, through psychoanalytic theories and theatrical paradigms. How is the sublimation of human sacrifice today, on sports ...
... performance of violence in various cultures, from ancient human and animal sacrifices to modern sports and cinema, through psychoanalytic theories and theatrical paradigms. How is the sublimation of human sacrifice today, on sports ...
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... performances at the edges of that tradition. This exploration will shed new light on theatre's aesthetic and historical boundaries. But it will also address the problematic effects of dramatic violence, as shown on millions of cinema ...
... performances at the edges of that tradition. This exploration will shed new light on theatre's aesthetic and historical boundaries. But it will also address the problematic effects of dramatic violence, as shown on millions of cinema ...
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... performance of violence, from ancient ritual to screen sacrifices today, gives context and sense to the losses of life, gradual or sudden, in each spectator's particular death drive.3 But such sense-making, through surrogate bloodshed ...
... performance of violence, from ancient ritual to screen sacrifices today, gives context and sense to the losses of life, gradual or sudden, in each spectator's particular death drive.3 But such sense-making, through surrogate bloodshed ...
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... performance media, sacrificial identities, and possibilities for catharsis (or its backfire of mimetic violence), through similar yet different events and structures in the past. The term catharsis is sometimes used by film theorists ...
... performance media, sacrificial identities, and possibilities for catharsis (or its backfire of mimetic violence), through similar yet different events and structures in the past. The term catharsis is sometimes used by film theorists ...
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... performance of individuality and community—before and after theatre's “birth” as a distinct art form. Through that distinction, however, theatre emerged as a mode of performance with greater individual creativity—reacting against, yet ...
... performance of individuality and community—before and after theatre's “birth” as a distinct art form. Through that distinction, however, theatre emerged as a mode of performance with greater individual creativity—reacting against, yet ...
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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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