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 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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Lindsay Steenberg, Steenberg Lindsay
• Mitarbeit: Claire Nally (Herausgeber), Angela Smith (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781350120075
• ISBN: 978-1-350-12007-5
• Seiten: 320
• Abmessung: 142 mm x 218 mm x 20 mm
• Serien: Library of Gender and Popular Culture; Library of Gender and Popular
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Gender studies, gender groups, Violence in society, Violence and abuse in society