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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... potential catharsis of spectators' sympathies and fears. This book seeks to redefine Aristotle's notion of catharsis in relation to modern stage and screen violence—as well as ancient ritual sacrifice—through current psychoanalytic and ...
... potential catharsis of spectators' sympathies and fears. This book seeks to redefine Aristotle's notion of catharsis in relation to modern stage and screen violence—as well as ancient ritual sacrifice—through current psychoanalytic and ...
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... 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 sacrifices today, gives context and sense to the losses of life ...
... 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 sacrifices today, gives context and sense to the losses of life ...
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... potential chaos, while rehearsing an ultimate submission to providential authority—with melodrama's seductive formula of the good being threatened by evil, yet triumphing in the end. Melodrama's reassertion of metaphysical righteousness ...
... potential chaos, while rehearsing an ultimate submission to providential authority—with melodrama's seductive formula of the good being threatened by evil, yet triumphing in the end. Melodrama's reassertion of metaphysical righteousness ...
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... potential. Kubrick never explores the specific sources and consequences of Alex's brutality, beyond his dull-witted, indulgent parents and purely vengeful victims. This encouraged some spectators to perceive the cruel acts as ...
... potential. Kubrick never explores the specific sources and consequences of Alex's brutality, beyond his dull-witted, indulgent parents and purely vengeful victims. This encouraged some spectators to perceive the cruel acts as ...
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... potential remedy for social ills at best incremental. However, there is also a yearning in the mass audience today for more than just commercial entertainment, vicarious thrills, and illusory justice (as the recent popularity of ...
... potential remedy for social ills at best incremental. However, there is also a yearning in the mass audience today for more than just commercial entertainment, vicarious thrills, and illusory justice (as the recent popularity of ...
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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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