violence and media an intricate dance dennis aig, montana state university bozeman public library...
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VIOLENCE AND MEDIA
An Intricate DanceDENNIS AIG, MONTANA STATE
UNIVERSITYBOZEMAN PUBLIC LIBRARY
OCTOBER 24, 2013
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Mental Health Studies
• Correlation – Not Necessarily Causation or “Trigger”
• Makes Intuitive Sense and Supported by Research
• Recent New York Times Article Summary
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Problem
• Isolates media from history, culture, art, literature, politics, economics, and history
• Freedom of Expression• Blame Society? Doesn’t work either although
can’t be ignored
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History as Justification and Often Glorification of Violence
• Old Testament• New Testament• Greece, Rome • Middle Ages, Sun Tzu• Renaissance• 17th-19th Centuries – Revolutions• 20th Century – Century of Slaughter• 21st Century – Wars of Terror and Uprising
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U.S. Violence as Means to “Good” Ends - Affects Heroic Images
• Country born of revolution – West was “won”• Generations defined by wars –Our Mythology• Protection of Fragile Freedom by Violence in
becomes “right”
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Violence as Upward Mobility
• Outlaw Mystique• Gangs – Of all Ethnic Groups. American way of
crime
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Media
• From earliest films, attracted to violence• Violence is “cinematic” – action, dramatic
tension, often an explosive climax, and then a major resolution
• Drew on other arts • Violence since the Greeks• Shakespeare, Ibsen
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Heroes
• Often People of Justified Violence
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Expendable Extras
• “Collateral damage” of action who are essentially mowed down without provoking feeling from the audience
• Cry for ET, but do we cry for the Stars Wars Extra #68?
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Video Games
• Many involve “target practice” – desensitizing• Halo • Prince Harry’s Comment about the Taliban
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Dramatic Structure of Violence
• Harris and Klebold at Columbine• James Holmes and Dark Knight Rises Shooting• Adam Lanza and Sandy Hook • Shootings not just planned but choreographed• Living in the movie of their lives – create their
own third acts
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Future
• Dark Humor – Past, present, and future• May be that some individuals are susceptible
to influence from film violence because of mental instability
• Part of our national and international culture
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Not a Trigger, But a Path
• Sublimation but growing acceptance• Could lead to major moral, legal, and cultural
changes