Are You Not Entertained?: Mapping the Gladiator Across Visual Media
Lindsay Steenberg
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.
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.
Έτος:
2021
Εκδότης:
Bloomsbury Academic
Γλώσσα:
english
ISBN 10:
135012009X
ISBN 13:
9781350120099
Αρχείο:
PDF, 4.58 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2021