The myth of media violence a critical introduction
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Malden, MA
Blackwell Pub.
2007
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the media violence Tower of Babble
- What is media violence?
- A cacophony of voices
- 1. We like to watch : a brief history of media violence
- Media violence in historical perspective
- Regulation efforts
- Historical continuities in media violence debates
- Media hysteria and the culture of fear
- The media hysteria cycle
- The win-win situation
- The facts about crime and violence
- 2. Watching doesn't make us violent : assessing the research on media violence
- The biology of violence
- The psychology of violence
- Cultures of violence
- Researching the effects of media violence
- Laboratory and field research
- Long-term research
- Content analysis
- The war of the professors
- Film and media studies
- The pleasure of terror
- The "new violence"
- 3. We are afraid : media violence and society
- Identity and fear
- Fear and desire
- Gender and race
- Crime and politics
- The war on terrorism
- 4. We can't stop the violence : the uses and importance of media violence
- Violence and education
- Violence and art
- Violence and news
- The media violence industry
- The new economics of entertainment
- The movie business
- Disaster movies
- Science fiction
- Horror
- Beyond the theater and into the toy store
- Television
- Critical viewing
- Dramatic programs
- Reality television
- Music television
- TV news
- Children's programming
- Sports on TV
- 5. But we can understand it : beyond polemics in the media violence debate
- Publishing violence
- Computer and video games
- The desire for media violence
- The aesthetics of violence
- Narratives of violence
- The ethics of media violence
- Violence and memory
- Responding to media violence
The 11 myths of media violence