Theatres of Human Sacrifice

From Ancient Ritual to Screen Violence

AvMark Pizzato

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Provides insight into the ritual lures and effects of mass media spectatorship, especially regarding the pleasures, risks, and purposes of violent display.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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-11-18
Mått:152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt:372 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series in Psychoanalysis and Culture
Antal sidor:275
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791462607

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Mark Pizzato is Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the author of Edges of Loss: From Modern Drama to Postmodern Theory.

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"In addressing the problematic effects of dramatic violence, the author treats the subject not only historically as violence has unfolded in external performancesin ritual sacrifice, gladiatorial sports, as well as theatre but also as it unfolds within the mind." — Joseph Natoli, author of Memory's Orbit: Film and Culture 1999–2000"This is a pathbreaking and definitive investigation of the cultural work that spectacles of violent sacrifice have performed in a multitude of historical contexts. Through this investigation, Mark Pizzato provides a new framework for understanding the spectacle of violent sacrifice as the location where cultural and political debate plays itself out." — Todd McGowan, author of The End of Dissatisfaction? Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment

Innehållsförteckning

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PROLOGOS Tragedy in MelodramaTheatre's Material Ghosts and GodsEthical EdgesA Sacrificial Imperative PART ONE: CATHARSIS BETWEEN SACRIFICIAL CULTURES 1. Blood Sacrifice in Ancient Greece and Aztec America Theatre within RitualTranscendental SavageryAltar-Egos and Body PartsFrom Solar to Proscenium MirrorsThe Bottom of the FrameAnimistic Psychology, Puppetry, and Dancing HeartsCathartic Encounters with the Real 2. Roman, Aztec, and NFL "Gladiators" Sacrificial ShadesThe Metaphysics of Script and ScoreIm-mortal Dances, Costumes, and PropsStar PowersAudience Participation and AlienationMelodramatic or Tragic Catharsis PART TWO: SCREENING REAL MONSTERS 3. Choral Edges in Frankenstein and Natural Born Killers A Monstrous Gaze Slices of Space and Time Edges of Communion in FrankensteinViolence in the HouseCruel Affect and A-Effect as Cathartic CuresChoral Born KillersMale and Female Monsters 4. Brechtian and Aztec Violence in Zoot Suit Patriarchal SacrificesBrechtian Ixiptla OnscreenAudience Effects of the Perverse Superego 5. Martyrs and Scapegoats in the Films of Scorsese and Coppola Body and Blood OfferingsBetween Animal and DivineLucifer WithinSacrifices That Cannot Be RefusedThe Sympathetic Inheritance of EvilPostmodern Flower War EXODOS NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX