{"product_id":"are-you-not-entertained","title":"Are You Not Entertained?","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnglo-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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrequently 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54244785095000,"sku":"9781350120075","price":122.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781350120075.jpg?v=1770906625","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/are-you-not-entertained","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}