Are You Not Entertained?
Mapping the Gladiator Across Visual Media
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
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Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.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
- Utgivningsdatum2020-11-26
- Mått142 x 218 x 20 mm
- Vikt549 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieLibrary of Gender and Popular Culture
- Antal sidor320
- FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- ISBN9781350120075
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