Journal article
American Film Violence: An Analytic Portrait
Journal of interpersonal violence, Vol.17(4), pp.351-370
04/2002
DOI: 10.1177/0886260502017004001
Abstract
This article profiles the violence that occurs in the films that compose the most popular (topgrossing) genres of 1994: comedy, drama, and action. The critical features used to describe film violence are intentionality, frequency, seriousness, consequences, explicitness, and severity (damage to the body of the recipient). Scales for seriousness, explicitness, and severity were systematically applied to the films using frame-by-frame analysis. Although the initiators of violence in American films employ lethal violence in nearly half the violent events, depiction of any consequences to the recipient's body occurs in 1 out of 10 cases. Throughout, the effects of violence on the victim's body are mystified by a form of narrative that occults and minimizes consequences arising from clearly depicted intentional assaults. So far as violence is concerned, the Hollywood body is an impossible one, merely a dramaturgical figure.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- American Film Violence: An Analytic Portrait
- Creators
- Nick BrowneTheresa WebbKevin FisherBernard Cook - University of California, Los Angeles, School of Film and TelevisionDavid McArthurCorinne Peek-AsaJess Kraus - Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of interpersonal violence, Vol.17(4), pp.351-370
- DOI
- 10.1177/0886260502017004001
- ISSN
- 0886-2605
- eISSN
- 1552-6518
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/2002
- Academic Unit
- Occupational and Environmental Health; Epidemiology; Nursing; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984215050402771
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