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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... my friend Tullio Maranhão who helped me find insight in the crossing of cultures may his crossing to the other world also be enlightening Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix PROLOGOS 1 Tragedy in Melodrama Theatre's Material.
... my friend Tullio Maranhão who helped me find insight in the crossing of cultures may his crossing to the other world also be enlightening Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix PROLOGOS 1 Tragedy in Melodrama Theatre's Material.
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From Ancient Ritual to Screen Violence Mark Pizzato. Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix PROLOGOS 1 Tragedy in Melodrama Theatre's Material Ghosts and Gods Ethical Edges A Sacrificial Imperative PART CULTURES I: CATHARSIS BETWEEN SACRIFICIAL ONE ...
From Ancient Ritual to Screen Violence Mark Pizzato. Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix PROLOGOS 1 Tragedy in Melodrama Theatre's Material Ghosts and Gods Ethical Edges A Sacrificial Imperative PART CULTURES I: CATHARSIS BETWEEN SACRIFICIAL ONE ...
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... TRAGEDY IN MELODRAMA Displays of violence have become quite commonplace on our film and TV screens. Usually, the ... tragedy—in theatre's emergence from prior rites in ancient Greece and in crashes, are recent examples.) Through such ...
... TRAGEDY IN MELODRAMA Displays of violence have become quite commonplace on our film and TV screens. Usually, the ... tragedy—in theatre's emergence from prior rites in ancient Greece and in crashes, are recent examples.) Through such ...
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... tragedy within melodrama today. And yet, the actual effects of such cracks in the dominant melodramatic fabric of our virtual reality still depend a great deal on who is watching and how, as well as what is onscreen. Several decades ago ...
... tragedy within melodrama today. And yet, the actual effects of such cracks in the dominant melodramatic fabric of our virtual reality still depend a great deal on who is watching and how, as well as what is onscreen. Several decades ago ...
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... tragedy's mythic orders of meaning, invested with “holy” communal power, are irreversibly lost (Melodramatic 205–206).17 He rejects “spurious appeals to synthetic mythologies,” which might make tragedy possible again, and instead values ...
... tragedy's mythic orders of meaning, invested with “holy” communal power, are irreversibly lost (Melodramatic 205–206).17 He rejects “spurious appeals to synthetic mythologies,” which might make tragedy possible again, and instead values ...
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