Are You Not Entertained?

Mapping the Gladiator Across Visual Media

AvLindsay Steenberg

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-11-26
Mått:142 x 218 x 20 mm
Vikt:549 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Library of Gender and Popular Culture
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350120075

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Våld och övergrepp inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Lindsay Steenberg is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University where she co-ordinates their graduate programme in Popular Cinema. She has published numerous articles on violence and gender in postmodern and postfeminist media culture. She is the author of Forensic Science in Contemporary American Popular Culture: Gender, Crime, and Science.

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Steenberg moves deftly across time, space, media and story type, interrogating the gladiator as a powerful archetype of joyous nostalgic violence. This definitive study maps cinema, genre histories and masculinity in new and thought-provoking ways: a truly spectacular achievement.

Innehållsförteckning

List of Figures, Tables and IllustrationsDedicationAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Millennial Masculinity and the Gladiators of Y2k - “Are You Not Entertained?”1. A Gladiatorial Genealogy: “My Name Is Gladiator”2. Genre Play: “Playthings of the Crowd”3. The Arena Fight: “Two Men Enter. One Man Leaves”4. Nostalgia: “Is Rome Worth One Good Man’s Life?”5. The Gladiatorial Burlesque: “Do You Like Movies About Gladiators?”6. Celebrity: “Win the Crowd”Conclusion: We Were EntertainedBibliographyFilmographyAppendix: Arena Fight Analysis