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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... symbolic polarities of good and evil,5 so as not to repeat the violence of prior sacrifices? For one hundred years, psychoanalysis has helped individual patients cathartically work through the repressed memories, wild fantasies, cryptic ...
... symbolic polarities of good and evil,5 so as not to repeat the violence of prior sacrifices? For one hundred years, psychoanalysis has helped individual patients cathartically work through the repressed memories, wild fantasies, cryptic ...
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... symbolic, and Real dimensions. Today's theatre scholars do not often venture to discuss film and television either.11 I hope that the current study will help to bridge these divides, if it is accepted in its interdisciplinary spirit ...
... symbolic, and Real dimensions. Today's theatre scholars do not often venture to discuss film and television either.11 I hope that the current study will help to bridge these divides, if it is accepted in its interdisciplinary spirit ...
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... symbolic order (by the Father's Name and No) as the child separates from its former, symbiotic, preverbal identification with the mother, yet continues to perform for the (m)Other's desires. Competition for ego attention in the ...
... symbolic order (by the Father's Name and No) as the child separates from its former, symbiotic, preverbal identification with the mother, yet continues to perform for the (m)Other's desires. Competition for ego attention in the ...
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... symbolic universe upside down and leads to the reconfiguration of this universe. Hence the impossibility of the Real does not prevent it from having effect in the realm of the possible. This is when ethics comes into play, in the ...
... symbolic universe upside down and leads to the reconfiguration of this universe. Hence the impossibility of the Real does not prevent it from having effect in the realm of the possible. This is when ethics comes into play, in the ...
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... symbolic manifestations shaping audience effects in melodramatic or tragic directions. In part I, explicit violence in ritual sacrifice and gladiatorial sports will be investigated for uncanny reflections of today's melodramatic and ...
... symbolic manifestations shaping audience effects in melodramatic or tragic directions. In part I, explicit violence in ritual sacrifice and gladiatorial sports will be investigated for uncanny reflections of today's melodramatic and ...
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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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