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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... shows, from horror movies to slasher and serial killer dramas—reveal the expansion of this culture's heroic ego, in the past century, with a manifest superego destiny to save certain victims and the world's order from enemies, criminals ...
... shows, from horror movies to slasher and serial killer dramas—reveal the expansion of this culture's heroic ego, in the past century, with a manifest superego destiny to save certain victims and the world's order from enemies, criminals ...
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... shows). There is always the possibility for a more ethical community of screen viewers and artists—engaging the Real through tragic complexity. This can be built, gradually, with increased media literacy: with spectators seeking the ...
... shows). There is always the possibility for a more ethical community of screen viewers and artists—engaging the Real through tragic complexity. This can be built, gradually, with increased media literacy: with spectators seeking the ...
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... shows the inspiration for theatre's legendary emergence in ancient Greece. But it also shows a Möbius strip of theatre within ritual and ritual within theatre,23 in the performance of individuality and community—before and after ...
... shows the inspiration for theatre's legendary emergence in ancient Greece. But it also shows a Möbius strip of theatre within ritual and ritual within theatre,23 in the performance of individuality and community—before and after ...
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... shows the sacrifice that each side makes, as materials for the creation of gods onscreen.32 The fans do not see the real person of the actor, while sacrificing themselves to his or her divine presence. As they devour the superstar's ...
... shows the sacrifice that each side makes, as materials for the creation of gods onscreen.32 The fans do not see the real person of the actor, while sacrificing themselves to his or her divine presence. As they devour the superstar's ...
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... show essential ties or origins, but to discover (by encircling specific lost causes) a Real sacrificial drive in the present—and thus to enable the cathartic restructuring of current symbolic ideals and imaginary projections ...
... show essential ties or origins, but to discover (by encircling specific lost causes) a Real sacrificial drive in the present—and thus to enable the cathartic restructuring of current symbolic ideals and imaginary projections ...
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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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