Are You Not Entertained

Author : Lindsay Steenberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350120081
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Are You Not Entertained? written by Lindsay Steenberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglo-American culture is marked by a gladiatorial impulse: a deep cultural fascination in watching men fight each other. The gladiator is an archetypal character embodying this impulse and his brand of violent and eroticised masculinity has become a cultural shorthand that signals a transhistorical version of heroic masculinity. Frequently the gladiator or celebrity fighter - from the amphitheatres of Rome to the octagon of the Ultimate Fighting Championships - is used as a way of insisting that a desire to fight, and to watch men fighting, is simply a part of our human nature. This book traces a cultural interest in stories about gladiators through twentieth and twenty-first-century film, television and videogames.

Author : Simone C. Drake
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9781478006787
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Are You Entertained? written by Simone C. Drake and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent of the internet and the availability of social media and digital downloads have expanded the creation, distribution, and consumption of Black cultural production as never before. At the same time, a new generation of Black public intellectuals who speak to the relationship between race, politics, and popular culture has come into national prominence. The contributors to Are You Entertained? address these trends to consider what culture and blackness mean in the twenty-first century's digital consumer economy. In this collection of essays, interviews, visual art, and an artist statement the contributors examine a range of topics and issues, from music, white consumerism, cartoons, and the rise of Black Twitter to the NBA's dress code, dance, and Moonlight. Analyzing the myriad ways in which people perform, avow, politicize, own, and love blackness, this volume charts the shifting debates in Black popular culture scholarship over the past quarter century while offering new avenues for future scholarship. Contributors. Takiyah Nur Amin, Patricia Hill Collins, Kelly Jo Fulkerson-Dikuua, Simone C. Drake, Dwan K. Henderson, Imani Kai Johnson, Ralina L. Joseph, David J. Leonard, Emily J. Lordi, Nina Angela Mercer, Mark Anthony Neal, H. Ike Okafor-Newsum, Kinohi Nishikawa, Eric Darnell Pritchard, Richard Schur, Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, Vincent Stephens, Lisa B. Thompson, Sheneese Thompson

Author : Jo-Ann Shelton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195089738
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book As the Romans Did written by Jo-Ann Shelton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised to include new selections and updated bibliographical material, the second edition of this popular sourcebook offers a rich, revealing look at everyday Roman life. It provides clear, lively translations of a fascinating array of documents drawn from Latin and Greek source material--from personal letters, farming manuals, medical texts, and recipes to poetry, graffiti, and tombstone inscriptions. Each selection has been translated into readable, contemporary English. This edition includes more than 50 additional selections that introduce new topics and expand coverage of existing topics. In addition, the commentary on all the selections has been revised to reflect the recent scholarship of social and cultural historians. Extensive annotations, abundant biographical notes, maps, appendices, cross-references to related topics, and a newly-updated bibliography provide readers with the historical and cultural background material necessary to appreciate the selections. Arranged thematically into chapters on family life, housing, education, entertainment, religion, and other important topics, the translations reveal the ambitions and aspirations not only of the upper class, but of the average Roman citizen as well. They tell of the success and failure of Rome's grandiose imperialist policies and also of the pleasures and hardships of everyday life. Wide-ranging and lively, the second edition of As the Romans Did offers the most lucid account available of Roman life in all its diversity. Ideal for courses in Ancient Roman History, Social History of Rome, Roman Civilization, and Classics, it will also appeal to readers interested in ancient history.

Author : Lindsay Steenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781350189317
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Are You Not Entertained? written by Lindsay Steenberg and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of Figures, Tables and Illustrations -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Millennial Masculinity and the Gladiators of Y2k - "Are You Not Entertained?" -- 1. A Gladiatorial Genealogy: "My Name Is Gladiator" -- 2. Genre Play: "Playthings of the Crowd" -- 3. The Arena Fight: "Two Men Enter. One Man Leaves" -- 4. Nostalgia: "Is Rome Worth One Good Man's Life?" -- 5. The Gladiatorial Burlesque: "Do You Like Movies About Gladiators?" -- 6. Celebrity: ?Win the Crowd? Conclusion: We Were Entertained -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Appendix: Arena Fight Analysis.

Author : Daniel Mannix
Publisher : eNet Press
ISBN 13 : 1618869728
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Those About to Die written by Daniel Mannix and published by eNet Press. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands flocked to see gladiators, charioteers, wild animals, women and children hacked, crucified, torn to pieces, ravished, burned, and drown. Biographies, paintings, historical evidence and an author's imagination merge to tell the story of one of history's most ruthless exhibitions—the Roman games.

Author : Marietta Gentles Crawford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998775609
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Nine to Thrive written by Marietta Gentles Crawford and published by . This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Nine to Thrive shows professionals how to build a credible and consistent personal brand that will help you thrive in your career.

Author : Jon Solomon
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300083378
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ancient World in the Cinema written by Jon Solomon and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining and useful book provides a comprehensive survey of films about the ancient world, from The Last Days of Pompeii to Gladiator. Jon Solomon catalogues, describes, and evaluates films set in ancient Greece and Rome, films about Greek and Roman history and mythology, films of the Old and New Testaments, films set in ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Persia, films of ancient tragedies, comic films set in the ancient world, and more. The book has been updated to include feature films and made-for-television movies produced in the past two decades. More than two hundred photographs illustrate both the films themselves and the ancient sources from which their imagery derives.

Author : Philip Matyszak
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500771723
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gladiator: The Roman Fighter's [Unofficial] Manual written by Philip Matyszak and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining yet factual insider's guide: how to become a gladiator, hone your fighting skills, and thrill the crowds in the Colosseum. So you think you’d like to be a gladiator? Find out how to get thousands to idolize you as the strongest, meanest fighter in the Roman empire. Win fame and fortune in one of Rome’s most glamorous locations, in the presence of the emperor himself. Who wouldn’t kill for a job like that? This handy guide tells you everything you need to know before you step out to fight for your life in front of a roaring crowd: Why you should become a gladiator How to join the most glamorous—yet lethal—profession on earth Who will try to kill you, and with what Which arena of the empire is the right one for you When and how often you will fight What happens before, during, and after a duel Combining the latest research with modern reconstructions, Gladiator helps you experience firsthand the spectacular yet brutal life and death of the most iconic figure of ancient Rome.

Author : Neil Postman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143036531
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amusing Ourselves to Death written by Neil Postman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-12-27 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever. "It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman.” -CNN Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic media—from the Internet to cell phones to DVDs—it has taken on even greater significance. Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demands of entertainment. It is also a blueprint for regaining control of our media, so that they can serve our highest goals. “A brilliant, powerful, and important book. This is an indictment that Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one.” –Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: