Violence and the media / Cynthia Carter and C. Kay Weaver.
"The book offers a compelling argument that the daily repetition of media violence helps to normalize and legitimize the acts being portrayed. Most crucially, the influence of media violence needs to be understood in relation to the structural inequalities of everyday life. Using a wide range o...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia, Pa. :
Open University Press,
2003.
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| Series: | Issues in cultural and media studies.
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| Summary: | "The book offers a compelling argument that the daily repetition of media violence helps to normalize and legitimize the acts being portrayed. Most crucially, the influence of media violence needs to be understood in relation to the structural inequalities of everyday life. Using a wide range of examples of media violence primarily drawn from the American and British media to illustrate these points, Violence and the Media is a distinctive and revealing exploration of one of the most important and controversial subjects in cultural and media studies today."--Back cover. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 206 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0335205062 (hbk.) 0335205054 (pbk.) |