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Critical readings : violence and the media / edited by C. Kay Weaver and Cynthia Carter.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Issues in cultural and media studiesPublisher: Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2006Description: xv, 379 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0335218067
  • 9780335218066
  • 0335218059
  • 9780335218059
Other title:
  • Violence and the media
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.6 22
Contents:
1. Media violence research in the twenty-first century : a critical intervention -- 2. Imitation of film-mediated aggressive models -- 3. Television violence : at a time of turmoil and terror -- 4. Ten things wrong with the media 'effects' model -- 5. From bad media violence research to good - a guide for the perplexed -- 6. The social amplification of risk and the media violence debate -- 7. Private satisfactions and public disorders : fight club, patriarchy and the politics of masculine violence -- 8. The role of radio in the Rwandan genocide -- 9. Surviving violence : Hillsborough, Dunblane and the press -- 10. Tupac Shakur : understanding the identity formation of hyper-masculinity of a popular hip-hop artist -- 11. Imagine the terror of September 11 -- 12. Horrific blindess : photographic images of death in contemporary media -- 13. Cyberstalking and Internet pornography : gendered violence -- 14. Violence in children's cartoons : The Road Runner as mythical discourse -- 15. Portrayals of sexual violence in popular Hindi films -- 16. Personal appearance as a social problem : newspaper coverage of the Columbine High School shootings -- 17. Between feminine empowerment and subjugation : sexualizing the violent female hero in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer video game -- 18. Constructing Arabs as enemies after September 11 : an analysis of selected speeches by George W. Bush -- 19. Children viewing violence -- 20. Internet research on hate crime : what makes racists advocate violence? -- 21. Reader responses to the anti-gay hate crime story line in DC comics' Green Lantern -- 22. Revelling in the gore in the room next door : video game violence and US teen culture -- 23. Zero tolerance : public responses to a feminist anti-sexual violence advertising campaign -- 24. Global discourses of compassion : audience reactions to news reports of human suffering.
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New Zealand editors.

Previous ed.: Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia, PA : Open University Press, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xiii-xv) and index.

1. Media violence research in the twenty-first century : a critical intervention -- 2. Imitation of film-mediated aggressive models -- 3. Television violence : at a time of turmoil and terror -- 4. Ten things wrong with the media 'effects' model -- 5. From bad media violence research to good - a guide for the perplexed -- 6. The social amplification of risk and the media violence debate -- 7. Private satisfactions and public disorders : fight club, patriarchy and the politics of masculine violence -- 8. The role of radio in the Rwandan genocide -- 9. Surviving violence : Hillsborough, Dunblane and the press -- 10. Tupac Shakur : understanding the identity formation of hyper-masculinity of a popular hip-hop artist -- 11. Imagine the terror of September 11 -- 12. Horrific blindess : photographic images of death in contemporary media -- 13. Cyberstalking and Internet pornography : gendered violence -- 14. Violence in children's cartoons : The Road Runner as mythical discourse -- 15. Portrayals of sexual violence in popular Hindi films -- 16. Personal appearance as a social problem : newspaper coverage of the Columbine High School shootings -- 17. Between feminine empowerment and subjugation : sexualizing the violent female hero in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer video game -- 18. Constructing Arabs as enemies after September 11 : an analysis of selected speeches by George W. Bush -- 19. Children viewing violence -- 20. Internet research on hate crime : what makes racists advocate violence? -- 21. Reader responses to the anti-gay hate crime story line in DC comics' Green Lantern -- 22. Revelling in the gore in the room next door : video game violence and US teen culture -- 23. Zero tolerance : public responses to a feminist anti-sexual violence advertising campaign -- 24. Global discourses of compassion : audience reactions to news reports of human suffering.

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