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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... villains who deserve the pain and heroes who ultimately triumph over fear, suffering, and conflict. But I would ... villain, nor to promote live theatre and ancient ritual as generically superior to screen media. Indeed, I will argue ...
... villains who deserve the pain and heroes who ultimately triumph over fear, suffering, and conflict. But I would ... villain, nor to promote live theatre and ancient ritual as generically superior to screen media. Indeed, I will argue ...
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... villains.4 We are at a critical point now in the long history of violent entertainment from ancient theatre to today's cinema and television, especially with the current melodramatic characters and justifications for violence in the ...
... villains.4 We are at a critical point now in the long history of violent entertainment from ancient theatre to today's cinema and television, especially with the current melodramatic characters and justifications for violence in the ...
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... villains, and victims are presented more fully, as flawed characters, bearing good and evil on both sides of the conflict and showing the self-destructiveness of revenge. Thus, a complex ethics of sacrifice will be theorized here ...
... villains, and victims are presented more fully, as flawed characters, bearing good and evil on both sides of the conflict and showing the self-destructiveness of revenge. Thus, a complex ethics of sacrifice will be theorized here ...
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... would realize this tragic void within oneself, rather than projecting it upon the evil villain, melodramatically. Lacanian theorist Alenka Zupancic explains this sacrificial sense of ethics 12 THEATRES OF HUMAN SACRIFICE ETHICAL EDGES.
... would realize this tragic void within oneself, rather than projecting it upon the evil villain, melodramatically. Lacanian theorist Alenka Zupancic explains this sacrificial sense of ethics 12 THEATRES OF HUMAN SACRIFICE ETHICAL EDGES.
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... villains, as in stage and screen melodramas. A more Lacanian therapy and theatre would focus instead on a greater cathartic awareness of the “missed aim” (Aristotle's hamartia) of repeated tragic symptoms and fantasies—as being produced ...
... villains, as in stage and screen melodramas. A more Lacanian therapy and theatre would focus instead on a greater cathartic awareness of the “missed aim” (Aristotle's hamartia) of repeated tragic symptoms and fantasies—as being produced ...
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