TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2002//
TI  - American Film Violence: An Analytic Portrait
JO  - Journal of interpersonal violence
A1  - Browne, Nick
A1  - Webb, Theresa
A1  - Fisher, Kevin
A1  - Cook, Bernard
A1  - McArthur, David L.
A1  - Peek-Asa, Corinne L.
A1  - Kraus, Jess Frank
SP  - 351
EP  - 370
VL  - 17
IS  - 4
N2  - This article profiles the violence that occurs in the films that compose the most popular (top-grossing) 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. (Abstract Adapted from Source: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2002. Copyright © 2002 by SAGE Publications)  1990s Program-Film Content Content Analysis Film Violence Media Violence Measurement 04-02<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0886-2605
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -