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Are You Not Entertained?

Lindsay Steenberg

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  • 320 sidor
  • 2020
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.
  • Författare: Lindsay Steenberg
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781350120075
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 320
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-11-26
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Academic