Theatres of Human Sacrifice
Subtitle: From Ancient Ritual to Screen Violence (SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: November 4, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780791462591
Subjects: Violence in society; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; General; Performing Arts; Cinema/Film: Book; Violence in popular culture; Popular Culture - General; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Film - General; Media Studies; Violence in motion pictures
First sentence: THEATRE WAS BORN from ritual in ancient Greece, or so the old story goes, fixing that mirror in a particular choral frame.