2 options
Media violence and Christian ethics / Jolyon Mitchell.
Table of contents only Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitchell, Jolyon P.
- Series:
- New studies in Christian ethics ; 30.
- New studies in Christian ethics ; 30
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian ethics.
- Violence on television.
- Mass media--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Mass media.
- Violence--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Violence.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- Christian ethics has increasingly assumed a central place within academic theology. At the same time the growing power and ambiguity of modern science and the rising dissatisfaction within the social sciences about claims in value-neutrality have prompted renewed interest in ethics within the secular academic world. There is, therefore, a need for studies in Christian ethics which, as well as being concerned with the relevance of Christian ethics to the present-day secular debate, are well informed about parallel discussions in recent philosophy, science or social science. New Studies in Christian Ethics aims to provide books that do this at the highest intellectual level and demonstrate that Christian ethics can make a distinctive contribution to this debate - either in moral substance or in terms of underlying moral justifications.
- How can audiences interact creatively, wisely and peaceably with the many different forms of violence found throughout today's media? Suicide attacks, graphic executions and the horrors of war appear in news reports, films, web-sites, and even on mobile phones. One approach towards media violence is to attempt to protect viewers; another is to criticize journalists, editors, film-makers and their stories.
- In this book Jolyon Mitchell highlights Christianity's ambiguous relationship with media violence. He goes beyond debates about the effects of watching mediated violence to examine how audiences, producers and critics interact with news images, films, video-games and advertising. He argues that practices such as hospitality, friendship, witness and worship can provide the context where both spectacular and hidden violence can be remembered and reframed. This can help audiences to imagine how their own identities and communities can be based not upon violence, but upon a more lasting foundation of peace.
- Contents:
- Media realities
- Remembering violent news
- Reframing news
- Re-envisaging photojournalism
- Media fantasies
- Reviewing violent films
- Reinterpreting films and video games
- Reappraising advertisements
- Redescribing media violence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-322) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521812566
- 0521812569
- OCLC:
- 137324916
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.