Critical readings : violence and the media /
Violence and the media
edited by C. Kay Weaver and Cynthia Carter.
- xv, 379 pages ; 24 cm.
- Issues in cultural and media studies .
Collection of previous published (1963-2005) articles, essays, etc. Includes index
Includes bibliographical references
Media violence research in the twenty-first century : a critical intervention / C. Kay Weaver and Cynthia Carter -- Part I. Conceptual approaches to media violence -- Imitation of film-mediated aggressive models / Albert Bandura, Dorothea Ross and Sheila A. Ross -- Television violence : at a time of turmoil and terror / George Gerbner -- Ten things wrong with the media 'effects' model / David Gauntlett -- From bad media violence research to good : a guide for the perplexed / Martin Barker and Julian Petley -- The social amplification of risk and the media violence debate / Annette Hill -- Private satisfactions and public disorders : Fight club, patriarchy and the politics of masculine violence / Henry A. Giroux -- Part II. Producing media violence -- The role of radio in the Rwandan genocide / Christine L. Kellow and H. Leslie Steeves -- Surviving violence : Hillsborough, Dunblane and the press / Ann Jemphreys and Eileen Berrington -- Tupac Shakur : understanding the identity formation of hyper-masculinity of a popular hip-hop artist / Derek Iwamoto -- Imagine the terror of September 11 / Medhi Semanti -- Horrific blindness : photographic images of death in contemporary media / David Campbell -- Cyberstalking and Internet pornography : gendered violence / Alison Adam -- Part III. Representing media violence -- Violence in children's cartoons : the Road Runner as mythical discourse / Douglas R. Bruce -- Portrayals of sexual violence in popular Hindi films / Srividya Ramasubramanian and Mary Beth Oliver -- Personal appearance as a social problem : newspaper coverage of the Columbine High School shootings / Jennifer Paff Ogle, Molly Eckman and Catherine Amoroso Leslie -- Between feminine empowerment and subjugation : sexualizing the violent female hero in the Buffy the vampire slayer video game / Magdala Peixoto Labre and Lisa Duke -- Constructing Arabs as enemies after September 11 : an analysis of selected speeches by George W. Bush / Debra Merskin -- Part IV. Media violence audiences -- Children viewing violence / David Buckingham -- Internet research on hate crime : what makes racists advocate violence? / Jack Glaser, Jay Dixit and Donald P. Green -- Reader responses to the anti-gay hate crime story line in DC Comics' Green Lantern / Valerie Palmer-Mehta and Kellie Hay -- Revelling in the gore in the room next door : video game violence and US teen culture / Charles Piot -- Zero tolerance : public responses to a feminist anti-sexual violence advertising campaign / Jenny Kitzinger -- Global discourses of compassion : audience reactions to news reports of human suffering / Birgitta Höijer.
The relationship between media representations and real acts of violence is one of the most contentious and hotly debated issue. This book brings together a selection of highly influential readings that have helped to shape this area of research. It includes key investigations of how, and with what implications, do the media portray violence.