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The killing screens : media and the culture of violence / the Media Education Foundation presents ; executive producer and director, Sut Jhally.
Annenberg Circulation Desk DVD PN1992.8.V55 K552 2002
Available
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- George Gerbner on media and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aggressiveness on television.
- Violence in mass media.
- Violence on television.
- Violence--Research.
- Violence.
- Television and families--United States.
- Television and families.
- Television--Social aspects.
- Television.
- United States.
- Television and children--United States.
- Television and children.
- Television--Psychological aspects.
- Mass media--Social aspects.
- Mass media.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (37 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Media and the culture of violence
- Place of Publication:
- Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, [2002]
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- 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 effects of mass media on society, and discusses what can be done. Questions and ideas are based on the results of a 20-year ongoing study, the Cultural Indicators Project, by Dr. George Gerbner.
- 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 and teachers can do.
- Participant:
- Host: Dr. George Gerbner, Jean Kilbourne.
- Credits:
- Cameramen, Fred Speckles, Robert DiNozzi ; editors Robert DiNozzi, Sut Jhally ; music composed and performed by Michael Morgan.
- Notes:
- DVD release of the 1994 documentary.
- ISBN:
- 1893521524
- OCLC:
- 50678404
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