Author: Antonio Zobi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 48
Book Description
La Questione romana esaminata nell'ultima sua soluzione dal cavaliere Antonio Zobi
Author: Antonio Zobi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 48
Book Description
New Hollywood Violence
Author: Steven Jay Schneider
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719067235
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Exploring the depiction of violence and related issues in Hollywood productions, this book focuses on the motivations and cultural politics of violence on the big screen, as well as its effects on viewers and society as a whole.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719067235
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Exploring the depiction of violence and related issues in Hollywood productions, this book focuses on the motivations and cultural politics of violence on the big screen, as well as its effects on viewers and society as a whole.
The Aesthetics of Murder
Author: Joel Black
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
"What connects the Romantic essays of Thomas De Quincey and the violent cinema of Brian De Palma? Or the "beautiful" suicides of Hedda Gabler and Yukio Mishima? Or the shootings of John Lennon and Ronald Reagan? In The Aesthetics of Murder, Joel Black explores the sometimes gruesome interplay between life and art, between actual violence and images of violence in a variety of literary texts, paintings, and films. Rather than exclude murder from critical consideration by dismissing it as a crime, Black urges us to ponder the killer's artistic role -- and our own experience as audience, witness, or voyeur. Black examines murder as a recurring, obsessive theme in the Romantic tradition, approaching the subject from an aesthetic rather than a moral, psychological, or philosophical perspective. And he brings into his discussion contemporary instances of sensational murders and assassinations, treating these as mimetic or cathartic activities in their own right. Combining historical documentation with theoretical insights, Black shows that the possibilities of representing violence -- and of experiencing it -- as art were recognized early in the nineteenth century as logical extensions of Romantic theories of the sublime. Since then, both traditional art forms and the modern mass media have contributed to the growing aestheticization of daily experience -- including murder, suicide, and terrorism." -- Book cover.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
"What connects the Romantic essays of Thomas De Quincey and the violent cinema of Brian De Palma? Or the "beautiful" suicides of Hedda Gabler and Yukio Mishima? Or the shootings of John Lennon and Ronald Reagan? In The Aesthetics of Murder, Joel Black explores the sometimes gruesome interplay between life and art, between actual violence and images of violence in a variety of literary texts, paintings, and films. Rather than exclude murder from critical consideration by dismissing it as a crime, Black urges us to ponder the killer's artistic role -- and our own experience as audience, witness, or voyeur. Black examines murder as a recurring, obsessive theme in the Romantic tradition, approaching the subject from an aesthetic rather than a moral, psychological, or philosophical perspective. And he brings into his discussion contemporary instances of sensational murders and assassinations, treating these as mimetic or cathartic activities in their own right. Combining historical documentation with theoretical insights, Black shows that the possibilities of representing violence -- and of experiencing it -- as art were recognized early in the nineteenth century as logical extensions of Romantic theories of the sublime. Since then, both traditional art forms and the modern mass media have contributed to the growing aestheticization of daily experience -- including murder, suicide, and terrorism." -- Book cover.
Killing for Culture
Author: David Kerekes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Art as Far as the Eye Can See
Author: Paul Virilio
Publisher: Berg Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
This title puts art back where it matters: at the center of politics
Publisher: Berg Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
This title puts art back where it matters: at the center of politics