Are You Not Entertained?
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-12007-5 (ISBN)
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.
Lindsay Steenberg is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University where she co-ordinates their graduate programme in Popular Cinema. She has published numerous articles on violence and gender in postmodern and postfeminist media culture. She is the author of Forensic Science in Contemporary American Popular Culture: Gender, Crime, and Science.
List of Figures, Tables and Illustrations
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Millennial Masculinity and the Gladiators of Y2k - “Are You Not Entertained?”
1. A Gladiatorial Genealogy: “My Name Is Gladiator”
2. Genre Play: “Playthings of the Crowd”
3. The Arena Fight: “Two Men Enter. One Man Leaves”
4. Nostalgia: “Is Rome Worth One Good Man’s Life?”
5. The Gladiatorial Burlesque: “Do You Like Movies About Gladiators?”
6. Celebrity: “Win the Crowd”
Conclusion: We Were Entertained
Bibliography
Filmography
Appendix: Arena Fight Analysis
Erscheinungsdatum | 16.01.2021 |
---|---|
Reihe/Serie | Library of Gender and Popular Culture |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 548 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-12007-3 / 1350120073 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-12007-5 / 9781350120075 |
Zustand | Neuware |
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
aus dem Bereich