The relationship between media representations and real acts of violence is one of the most contentious and hotly debated issues today. This book is the first to bring 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, the media portray violence in the twenty-first century. "Critical Readings: Violence and the Media" contains sections examining how media violence and its 'effects' have been theorized; how media production contexts influence the reporting and representation of violence; and how audiences engage with depictions of violence. Violence is analysed in as it is portrayed in different media formats, including television, film, radio, the news, public information campaigns, comics, video games, popular music, photography, and the internet. The readings cover a range of perspectives, including social learning, desensitisation and cultivation theories, 'no-effects' models, sociological, feminist and postmodern arguments. An editor's introduction and section introductions serve to contextualise the readings. Providing a detailed and theoretically grounded consideration of the cultural and social significance of media violence, "Critical Readings: Violence and the Media" is an essential resource for students of media studies, cultural studies, sociology and communication studies. It includes essays by: Alison Adam, Albert Bandura, Martin Barker, Eileen Berrington, Douglas R. Bruce, David Buckingham, David Campbell, Jay Dixit, Lisa Duke, Molly Eckman, David Gauntlett, George Gerbner, Henry Giroux, Jack Glaser, Donald P. Green, Kellie Hay, Annette Hill, Birgitta Hoijer, Derek Iwamoto, Ann Jemphrey, Christine L. Kellow, Jenny Kitzinger, Magdala Peixoto Labre, Catherine Amoroso Leslie, Debra Merskin, Jennifer Paff Ogle, Mary Beth Oliver, Valerie Palmer-Mehta, Julian Petley, Charles Piot, Srividya Ramasubramanian, Dorrie Ross, Sheila A. Ross, Mehdi Semati, and, H. Leslie Steeves.
| ISBN | 0335218059 | | Pages | 400 | | ISBN13 | 9780335218059
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Open University Press | | Weight (grammes) | 648 | | Imprint | Open University Press | | Published in | Milton Keynes | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Issues in Cultural and Media Studies | | Publication date | 01 Apr 2006 | | Height (mm) | 228 | | Library of Congress | P96.V5 C75 | | Width (mm) | 152 | | DEWEY | 303.6 | | Spine width (mm) | 22 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Tertiary education |
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| 1 | | Media violence research in the twenty-first century : a critical intervention by C. Kay Weaver and Cynthia Carter | | 1 |
| 2 | | Imitation of film-mediated aggressive models by Albert Bandura and Dorothea Ross and Sheila A. Ross | | 30 |
| 3 | | Television violence : at a time of turmoil and terror by George Gerbner | | 45 |
| 4 | | Ten things wrong with the media 'effects' model by David Gauntlett | | 54 |
| 5 | | From bad media violence research to good - a guide for the perplexed by Martin Barker and Julian Petley | | 67 |
| 6 | | The social amplification of risk and the media violence debate by Annette Hill | | 83 |
| 7 | | Private satisfactions and public disorders : fight club, patriarchy and the politics of masculine violence by Henry A. Giroux | | 95 |
| 8 | | The role of radio in the Rwandan genocide by Christine L. Kellow and H. Leslie Steeves | | 112 |
| 9 | | Surviving violence : Hillsborough, Dunblane and the press by Ann Jemphrey and Eileen Berrington | | 128 |
| 10 | | Tupac Shakur : understanding the identity formation of hyper-masculinity of a popular hip-hop artist by Derek Iwamoto | | 143 |
| 11 | | Imagine the terror of September 11 by Medhi Semanti | | 153 |
| 12 | | Horrific blindess : photographic images of death in contemporary media by David Campbell | | 159 |
| 13 | | Cyberstalking and Internet pornography : gendered violence by Alison Adam | | 177 |
| 14 | | Violence in children's cartoons : The Road Runner as mythical discourse by Douglas R. Bruce | | 196 |
| 15 | | Portrayals of sexual violence in popular Hindi films by Srividya Ramasubramanian and Mary Beth Oliver | | 210 |
| 16 | | Personal appearance as a social problem : newspaper coverage of the Columbine High School shootings by Jennifer Paff Ogle and Molly Eckman and Catherine Amoroso Leslie | | 226 |
| 17 | | Between feminine empowerment and subjugation : sexualizing the violent female hero in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer video game by Magdala Peixoto Labre and Lisa Duke | | 244 |
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