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Are You Not Entertained?
Lindsay Steenberg
其他書名
Mapping the Gladiator Across Visual Media
出版Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020-10-29
主題Social Science / Gender StudiesSocial Science / Popular CultureSocial Science / Violence in Society
ISBN13501200819781350120082
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TOEEEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.