Are you not entertained? mapping the gladiator across visual media
"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 transhist...
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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London
Bloomsbury Academic
2020
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| Schriftenreihe: | Library of gender and popular culture
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-12 DE-355 DE-703 URL des Erstveröffentlichers |
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| Zusammenfassung: | "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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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 291 Seiten) Illustrationen, Diagramme |
| ISBN: | 9781350120099 9781350120068 9781350120082 |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9781350120099 |