Kinesiology 2263F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Low Culture, High Culture
13 Apr 2017
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Lecture 18: the rink and the stage march 3, 2017. Hockey has a strong link to violence: first game played at victoria ice rink ended in a fight. At no point in hockey"s history has violence been fully accepted. Media directly shapes how we feel about a sporting incident. Expansion of media through newspapers and telegraphs. Fancy designs in attempted murder : connections between hockey and melodrama. Newspapers were booming, needed something to fill the pages. Newspaper writers wrote about hockey and its violence and also melodramatic theatre. Over and above the poignant emotion of pathos, melodrama thrives on stimulating the sensation of agitation. ben singer. We can see how the gallery through their expression of rage at the villain . dramatic violence . sense of relief and emotional release felt by the audience on his punishment rosalind crone. Melodramas were interactive, involved a relationship between the audience and the performers: often with reactions influencing the outcome of the performance.
