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 vii
... Theatre's Material Ghosts and Gods Ethical Edges A Sacrificial Imperative PART CULTURES I: CATHARSIS BETWEEN SACRIFICIAL ONE Blood Sacrifice in Ancient Greece and Aztec America 21 Theatre within Ritual Transcendental Savagery Altar-Egos ...
... Theatre's Material Ghosts and Gods Ethical Edges A Sacrificial Imperative PART CULTURES I: CATHARSIS BETWEEN SACRIFICIAL ONE Blood Sacrifice in Ancient Greece and Aztec America 21 Theatre within Ritual Transcendental Savagery Altar-Egos ...
Σελίδα 2
... theatre history narrative, finding in those margins the traces of ritual sacrifice that theatre today often masks, especially in the melodramatic modes of mainstream cinema and TV sports. The repetition of violence onstage or onscreen ...
... theatre history narrative, finding in those margins the traces of ritual sacrifice that theatre today often masks, especially in the melodramatic modes of mainstream cinema and TV sports. The repetition of violence onstage or onscreen ...
Σελίδα 3
... theatre. Like the best drama of ancient Greece, challenging the Dionysian audience with a new rite, to question myth, fate, and gods, cinema and television sometimes involve the mass audience in a communal working through of specific ...
... theatre. Like the best drama of ancient Greece, challenging the Dionysian audience with a new rite, to question myth, fate, and gods, cinema and television sometimes involve the mass audience in a communal working through of specific ...
Σελίδα 4
... theatre seats worldwide—extending the missionary reach of global capitalism and its secular religion of entertainment. Even the terrorist counterattacks of September 11, 2001, making real the violent scenes from numerous disaster movies ...
... theatre seats worldwide—extending the missionary reach of global capitalism and its secular religion of entertainment. Even the terrorist counterattacks of September 11, 2001, making real the violent scenes from numerous disaster movies ...
Σελίδα 6
... theatre theories of Bertolt Brecht and Antonin Artaud, which will be used often in this study, have had some influence in film studies in recent decades.8 But remarkably few film or TV scholars today consider the parallels and ...
... theatre theories of Bertolt Brecht and Antonin Artaud, which will be used often in this study, have had some influence in film studies in recent decades.8 But remarkably few film or TV scholars today consider the parallels and ...
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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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