Are You Not Entertained?

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Are You Not Entertained? is written by Lindsay Steenberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1350120081 (ISBN 10) and 9781350120082 (ISBN 13).

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.