reptilian empire's Journal [entries|friends|calendar] reptilian empire " If any human act evokes the aesthetic experience of the sublime, certainly it is the act of murder, and if murder can be experienced aesthetically, the murderer can in turn be regarded as a kind of artist — a performance artist or an anti-artist whose specialty is not creation but destruction. Everything in this world has two handles. Murder, for instance, may be laid hold of by its moral handle...and that, I confess, is its weak side; or it may also be treated aesthetically, as the Germans call it - that is, in relation to good taste." ( 1 2 3 ) [ userinfo | livejournal userinfo ] [ calendar | livejournal calendar ]

01 [ Posted by reptilianempire on June 8th, 2018 @ 7:03pm ] aesthetics of violence the aestheticization of violence in high culture art or mass media is the depiction of violence in what Indiana University film studies professor Margaret Bruder calls a "stylistically excessive", "significant and sustained way." When violence is depicted in this fashion in films, television shows, and other media, Bruder argues that audience members are able to connect references from the "play of images and signs" to artworks, genre conventions, cultural symbols, or concepts. ---- Add this journal since AOV has been taken down for a mass editing. All worthy updates will be posted here or at least until I get another domain :D 1 reply / edit

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