Are You Not Entertained?: Mapping the Gladiator Across Visual Media by Lindsay S

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Are You Not Entertained? by Lindsay Steenberg 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography 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. Table of Contents List of Figures, Tables and IllustrationsDedicationAcknowledgementsIntroduction: 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 Mans Life?"5. The Gladiatorial Burlesque: "Do You Like Movies About Gladiators?"6. Celebrity: "Win the Crowd"Conclusion: We Were EntertainedBibliographyFilmographyAppendix: Arena Fight Analysis Review Steenberg moves deftly across time, space, media and story type, interrogating the gladiator as a powerful archetype of joyous nostalgic violence. This definitive study maps cinema, genre histories and masculinity in new and thought-provoking ways: a truly spectacular achievement. -- Yvonne Tasker, Professor of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UKAre You Not Entertained offers a comprehensive and meticulously researched account of the figure of the gladiator across visual media. From Ancient Rome to The Hunger Games and The Bachelor, the volume carefully traces the contested place of the gladiator. -- Frances Smith, Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sussex, UKAre You Not Entertained is a brilliant, engaging, and innovative examination of the archetypal gladiator character, from its origins in Ancient Rome to its depictions in movies and other popular media, and brings timely attention to the complex intersections between gladiatorial masculinity, violence, nostalgia, and eroticism. -- Cynthia Felando, Lecturer, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Promotional This book traces the mediated figure of the gladiator from his emergence in Ancient Rome to his transformation into an archetype that has flourished on contemporary media, particularly the cinema. Review Quote Steenberg moves deftly across time, space, media and story type, interrogating the gladiator as a powerful archetype of joyous nostalgic violence. This definitive study maps cinema, genre histories and masculinity in new and thought-provoking ways: a truly spectacular achievement. Promotional "Headline" This book traces the mediated figure of the gladiator from his emergence in Ancient Rome to his transformation into an archetype that has flourished on contemporary media, particularly the cinema. Feature This book traces a single cultural archetype (the gladiator) over an ambitiously wide historical context - highlighting large scale cultural patterns, while recognising the specificity of each cultures version of the gladiator. Details ISBN1350120073 Author Lindsay Steenberg Short Title Are You Not Entertained? Series Library of Gender and Popular Culture Language English Year 2020 ISBN-10 1350120073 ISBN-13 9781350120075 Format Hardcover Imprint Bloomsbury Academic Subtitle Mapping the Gladiator Across Visual Media Pages 320 DEWEY 791.436552 UK Release Date 2020-11-26 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2020-11-26 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Publication Date 2020-11-26 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2020-11-25 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. SECURE PAYMENT Peace of mind by paying through PayPal and eBay Buyer Protection TheNile_Item_ID:161566394;

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