TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Ancient violence in the modern imagination : fear and the fury
T2  - Imagines - Classical receptions in the visual performing arts
A2  - Berti, Irene, toimittaja
A2  - Castello, Maria G., toimittaja
A2  - Scilabra, Carla, toimittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - London ; New York
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5528075
AB  - "The collected essays in this volume focus on the presentation, representation and interpretation of ancient violence - from war to slavery, , rape and murder - in the modern visual and performing arts, with special attention to videogames and dance as well as the more usual media of film, literature and theatre. Violence, fury and the dread that they provoke are factors that appear frequently in the ancient sources. The dark side of antiquity, so distant from the ideal of purity and harmony that the classical heritage until recently usually called forth, has repeatedly struck the imagination of artists, writers and scholars across ages and cultures. A global assembly of contributors, from Europe to Brazil and from the US to New Zealand, consider historical and mythical violence in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus and the 2010 TV series of the same name, in Ridley Scott's Gladiator, in the work of Lars von Trier, and in Soviet ballet and the choreography of Martha Graham and Anita Berber. Representations of Roman warfare appear in videogames such as Ryse: Son of Romeand Total War, as well as recent comics, and examples from both these media are analysed in the volume. Finally, interviews with two artists offer insight into the ways in which practitioners understand and engage with the complex reception of these themes"--
SN  - 9781350075405 kovakantinen
SN  - 9781350195035 pehmeäkantinen
KW  - Violence in art.
KW  - Violence in popular culture.
KW  - Civilization, Ancient, in art.
KW  - Civilization, Ancient, in popular culture.
KW  - Arts, Modern : Themes, motives.
ER  -