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Ancient Violence in the Modern Imagination

Irene Berti Dr Maria G Castello Dr Carla Scilabra

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  • 328 sidor
  • 2022
The collected essays in this volume focus on the presentation, representation and interpretation of ancient violence from war to slavery, rape and murder in the modern visual and performing arts, with special attention to videogames and dance as well as the more usual media of film, literature and theatre. Violence, fury and the dread that they provoke are factors that appear frequently in the ancient sources. The dark side of antiquity, so distant from the ideal of purity and harmony that the classical heritage until recently usually called forth, has repeatedly struck the imagination of artists, writers and scholars across ages and cultures. A global assembly of contributors, from Europe to Brazil and from the US to New Zealand, consider historical and mythical violence in Stanley Kubricks Spartacus and the 2010 TV series of the same name, in Ridley Scotts Gladiator, in the work of Lars von Trier, and in Soviet ballet and the choreography of Martha Graham and Anita Berber. Representations of Roman warfare appear in videogames such as Ryse: Son of Rome and Total War, as well as recent comics, and examples from both these media are analysed in the volume. Finally, interviews with two artists offer insight into the ways in which practitioners understand and engage with the complex reception of these themes.
  • Författare: Irene Berti, Dr Maria G Castello, Dr Carla Scilabra
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781350195035
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 328
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-04-21
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Academic