| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, 51 min.) |
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A tidal wave of violence -- It's like the fish in the water -- The mean world syndrome -- Mean people -- The fallout |
| Summary |
For years, debates have raged among scholars, politicians, and concerned parents about the effects of media violence on viewers. Too often these debates have fallen into simplistic battles between those who claim that media images directly cause violence and those who argue that activists exaggerate the impact of media exposure. Based on interviews conducted with George Gerbner before his death in 2005, the film urges us to think about media effects in more nuanced ways. In contrast to behaviorist models that see media violence as causing real-world violence, and limited effects models that question the impact of media altogether, Gerbner encourages us to move outside the frame of this debate to consider how the repetitive stories media tell constitute a pervasive cultural environment - a landscape of ritualized, often violent images that have the power to cultivate how we see and understand the world. An accessible and provocative introduction to Gerbner's thought and the subject of media influence and media violence |
| Notes |
Originally released as a documentary in 2010 |
| Credits |
Executive producer, Sut Jhally ; edited by Andrew Killoy ; camera, David Rabinovitz ; co-producers, Loretta Alper, Andrew Killoy, Jason Young |
| Performer |
Michael Morgan, George Gerbner ; George Gerbner interviewed by Sut Jhally |
| Event |
Originally produced by Media Education Foundation in 2010 |
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Closed-captioned |
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Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Kanopy, viewed October 28 2022) |
| In |
Media Education Foundation Collection |
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Violence in mass media.
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Terrorism in mass media.
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Risk perception.
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Risk perception
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Terrorism in mass media
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Violence in mass media
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Internet videos
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documentary film.
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Internet videos
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Nonfiction films
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Documentary films
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired
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Nonfiction films.
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Documentary films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Documentaires.
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Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Alper, Loretta, co-producer.
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Earp, Jeremy, screenwriter, director.
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Gerbner, George.
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Jhally, Sut, executive producer, interviewer
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Killoy, Andrew, film editor.
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Morgan, Michael, 1953 April 15- narrator.
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Morris, Scott, producer.
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Rabinovitz, David, cinematographer.
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Media Education Foundation, production company.
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