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
... 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 were previously viii THEATRES OF HUMAN SACRIFICE.
... 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 were previously viii THEATRES OF HUMAN SACRIFICE.
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... postmodern collapse of universal values, fragmentation of the Self, and millennial dangers of Y2K catastrophes or apocalyptic terrorism. Spectators all over the world are buying Hollywood melodrama—though some may reverse its casting of ...
... postmodern collapse of universal values, fragmentation of the Self, and millennial dangers of Y2K catastrophes or apocalyptic terrorism. Spectators all over the world are buying Hollywood melodrama—though some may reverse its casting of ...
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... postmodern catharsis, with shocking switches of tone and open-ended plots.) As Elsaesser puts it, regarding classic films: “the best American melodramas of the fifties [are] not only critical social documents but genuine tragedies ...
... postmodern catharsis, with shocking switches of tone and open-ended plots.) As Elsaesser puts it, regarding classic films: “the best American melodramas of the fifties [are] not only critical social documents but genuine tragedies ...
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... postmodern as well. Artaud desired a return to primal, ritual cruelty in theatre, for sacrificial communion and catharsis, even at the risk of melodramatic gnosticism and emotional excess.31 Brecht advocated anti-Aristotelian ...
... postmodern as well. Artaud desired a return to primal, ritual cruelty in theatre, for sacrificial communion and catharsis, even at the risk of melodramatic gnosticism and emotional excess.31 Brecht advocated anti-Aristotelian ...
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... postmodern fragmentation of ego and the current split-subjectivity of screen media in our new millennium.42 We are both more individualistic and more widely communal than prior generations, in our theatrical and ritual illusions of star ...
... postmodern fragmentation of ego and the current split-subjectivity of screen media in our new millennium.42 We are both more individualistic and more widely communal than prior generations, in our theatrical and ritual illusions of star ...
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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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