violence in popular culture

Explores violence in pop culture, focusing on the history, geography, civics, and economics.

Collects questions and answers about violence in popular culture.

Explores violence in pop culture, focusing on the history, geography, civics, and economics.

"Using historical and current examples from film, television, literature, advertisements, and music, this book reveals the ways that rape and abuse are typically presented--and misrepresented--and evaluates the impact of these depictions on consumers."--Provided by publisher.

Collects questions and answers about violence in popular culture.

Presents the idea, with support from the philosophical theories of Jacques Lacan and psychoanalysis, that serial killers represent a wounded culture that is addicted to and fascinated by murder and treats killings as a type of performance art in the public sphere.

Based on years of study by famed psychiatrist Donald L. Nathanson, who asks that we view the problem of explosive violence in a startling new way. Includes issues like rudeness, incivility, sexual hedonism, and drug abuse. Dr. Nathanson links these societal ills to a radical change in the way our culture handles the shame family of emotions.

Contains 595 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about the history of violence in America, covering people, events, activities, organizations, and many other aspects of the topic; and includes an overview of violence in the U.S., and a listing of organizations, publications, and web resources related to violence.

Questions the popular belief that violent prose written by boys in school is cause for alarm, drawing from interviews with boys and girls to argue that video games, movies, sports, and other forms of popular culture inspire creativity in boys rather than aggression.

Nineteen essays examine the impact of violence in film and television upon its viewers and society as a whole, discussing such topics as artistic value, censorship, the v-chip, and research on the effects of screen violence.