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Substantial contribution to popular culture research

Interdisciplinary and intermedial treatment of the topic

First volume on the subject

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Dr. Thomas Wilke is Professor of Cultural Education at the Ludwigsburg University of Education.

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Trade copy: Substantial contribution to popular culture research Interdisciplinary and intermedial treatment of the topic First volume on the subject

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The historical Spartacus and the medial Spartacus .- The series Spartacus .- Entertainment in the Roman Republic and in the series.- Identity, persona and questions of recognition.- Body enactments and corporeality.- Everyday use of violence and experience of violence.- Composed copulatory settings: sex, eroticism and love.- Understanding of freedom and freedom as conflict.- "Fuck the Gods: morality, religion and religiosity.- Experience and experiential eroticism. Composed copulatory settings: sex, eroticism, and love.- Understandings of freedom and freedom as conflict.- "Fuck the Gods": morality, religion, and religiosity.- Experience and experiential extremism.- The myth and Spartacus - the myth of Spartacus.- Media and history.