Are You Not Entertained?: Mapping the Gladiator Across Visual Media
| Autor: | Steenberg, Lindsay |
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| EAN: | 9781350120075 |
| Sachgruppe: | Medien, Kommunikation |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 256 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Herausgeber: | Nally, Claire Smith, Angela |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 26.11.2020 |
| Schlagworte: | Gender Studies Gender Studies: Gruppen Gewalt und Missbrauch in der Gesellschaft SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society |
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Anglo-American culture is marked by a gladiatorial impulse: a deep cultural fascination in watching men fight each other. The gladiator is an archetypal character embodying this impulse and his brand of violent and eroticised masculinity has become a cultural shorthand that signals a transhistorical version of heroic masculinity. Frequently the gladiator or celebrity fighter - from the amphitheatres of Rome to the octagon of the Ultimate Fighting Championships - is used as a way of insisting that a desire to fight, and to watch men fighting, is simply a part of our human nature. This book traces a cultural interest in stories about gladiators through twentieth and twenty-first-century film, television and videogames.
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