Citation

Monk-Turner E, Ciba P, Cunningham M, McIntire PG, Pollard M, Turner R. Anal. Soc. Issues Public Policy 2004; 4(1): 1-11.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1530-2415.2004.00031.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In a content analysis of movie violence, we randomly selected twelve top-grossing American war films from four decades (1970 to 2002). We coded for implements of violence, length of violence, gore, and violence directed at noncombatants. We hypothesized that recently released war movies would be more violent than those released earlier. We found that films released since 1990 did contain more violence compared to others. Further, the intensity of gore increased in recently released movies.