The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (As Beauty) - Blood Knife
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How Game of Thrones and Shin Godzilla used the spectacle of the fantastic to capture the grim beauty and terrible tragedy of destruction.
The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (As Beauty) The Spectacle of carnage in Game of Thrones and Shin Godzilla by Sean T. Collins Spectacle is the language through which art communicates when the vocabulary of the everyday fails us. Fantastic fiction, an inherent trafficker in the unreal, says as much through spectacle as any art form this side of musical theater, in which excesses of emotion transcend dialogue and emerge through the eruption of song and dance. That Act Two showstopper speaks to us (or rather sings to us) because we recognize what it is to be so in love; so enraged, so bereft, so d
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