Are You Not Entertained? - 9781350120075

Description: Are You Not Entertained?Mapping the Gladiator Across Visual Media Author(s): Lindsay Steenberg Format: Hardback Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 9781350120075, 978-1350120075 Synopsis 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.

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Book Title: Are You Not Entertained?

Number of Pages: 320 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Are You Not Entertained?: Mapping the Gladiator Across Visual Media

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Publication Year: 2020

Subject: Zoology

Item Height: 216 mm

Item Weight: 548 g

Type: Textbook

Author: Lindsay Steenberg

Subject Area: Sexual Abuse

Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture

Item Width: 138 mm

Format: Hardcover