The killing screens : media and the culture of violence /

Explores why there is so much violence on television and its effects on viewers. Addresses psychological, political, social and developmental impacts of growing and living within a cultural environment of pervasive, ritualized violent representation. Suggests new ways of thinking about the negative...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Media Education Foundation
Format:	Video VHS
Language:	English
Published:	Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, [1994]
Subjects:	Aggressiveness on television. Violence in mass media. Violence on television. Television and children. Violence > Research. Mass media > Social aspects. Popular culture > United States.

Table of Contents:

1. Stories of power
2. Happy violence
3. Accelerating violence
4. Violence is a social relationship
5. Lessons of violence
6. Citizenship in the cultural environment
7. What parents, teachers and schools can do.