On Media Violence

On Media Violence
Author: W. James Potter
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1999
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780761916390

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This definitive examination of this important social topic asks questions such as: How much media violence is there? What are the meanings conveyed in the way violence is portrayed? What effect does it have on viewers?Divided into four parts, the book covers: a review of research on media violence; re-conceptions of exisiting theories of media violence; addresses the need to rethink the methodological tools used to assess media violence; and introduces the concept of Lineation Theory, a perspective for thinking about media violence and a new theoretical approach explaining it.