@article{ref1,
title="Cartoons kill: casualties in animated recreational theater in an objective observational new study of kids' introduction to loss of life",
journal="BMJ",
year="2014",
author="Colman, Ian and Kingsbury, Mila and Weeks, Murray and Ataullahjan, Anushka and BéLair, Marc-André and Dykxhoorn, Jennifer and Hynes, Katie and Loro, Alexandra and Martin, Michael S. and Naicker, Kiyuri and Pollock, Nathaniel and Rusu, Corneliu and Kirkbride, James B.",
volume="349",
number="",
pages="g7184-g7184",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: To assess the risk of on-screen death of important characters in children's animated films versus dramatic films for adults. <br><br>DESIGN: Kaplan-Meier survival analysis with Cox regression comparing time to first on-screen death. SETTING: Authors' television screens, with and without popcorn. PARTICIPANTS: Important characters in 45 top grossing children's animated films and a comparison group of 90 top grossing dramatic films for adults. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Time to first on-screen death. <br><br>RESULTS: Important characters in children's animated films were at an increased risk of death compared with characters in dramatic films for adults (hazard ratio 2.52, 95% confidence interval 1.30 to 4.90). Risk of on-screen murder of important characters was higher in children's animated films than in comparison films (2.78, 1.02 to 7.58). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Rather than being the innocuous form of entertainment they are assumed to be, children's animated films are rife with on-screen death and murder.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0959-535X",
doi="10.1136/bmj.g7184",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g7184"
}