Mayhem
Subtitle: Violence as Public Entertainment
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: April 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780738201450
Subjects: Sociology - Social Theory; Social Science; Sociology; Criminology; Social Science-Criminology; General; Mass media; Violence; Violence in mass media
First sentence: No people before or since have so reveled in displays of mortal combat as did the Romans during the last two centuries B.C. and the first three centuries thereafter, nor derived such pleasure from spectacles in which slaves and convicts were exposed to wild beasts and killed in front of cheering spectators.