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Ancient Violence in the Modern Imagination - The Fear and the Fury (Hardcover)
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Ancient Violence in the Modern Imagination - The Fear and the Fury (Hardcover)
Series: IMAGINES – Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts
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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 Rome and 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.
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