The passion of the passion – return of the public spectacle
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20156246 |
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| Authors | Ulrike Kistner (0000-0003-1522-8983, University of South Africa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 143-154 |
| Publication date | 2005-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387 |
| Publisher | Unisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02564710508530369 |
| OpenAlex | W2041621071 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This article analyses presentations of violence in relation to historically specific regimes of truth. It suggests that Mel Gibson's film provides for an easy slippage between different orders of violence and truth, creating the possibility for the tortured body denuded of any relation to truth, to appear as sacrifice
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Passion · Political science · Sacrifice · Slippage · Sociology · Spectacle · Theology · Computer Science · Law · Philosophical and Theoretical Analysis · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychedelics and Drug Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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