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Author Edwards, Emily D., author

Title Graphic violence : illustrated theories about violence, popular media, and our social lives / written by Emily D. Edwards ; art by Tristan Fuller
Edition First edition
Published New York : Routledge, 2020

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Description 1 online resource
Contents The Characteristics of Story: Conflict, Chronicle, and Violence -- The Journeys of Brutal Stories -- Helpless Audiences and The Magic Bullet -- Obstinate Violence -- Learning Violence: The Drama of Aggression -- Mean Worlds and Remorseless Strangers with Guns -- What an Audience Wants: Selection, Gratification, and Violence -- Gender, Hyper-Masculinity, and the Violent Story -- Terrorism, War, and Media Systems -- The Violent Aesthetic
Summary "Graphic Violence provides an innovative introduction to the relationship between violence and visual media, discussing how media consumers and producers can think critically about and interact with violent visual content. It comprehensively surveys predominant theories of media violence and the research supporting and challenging them, addressing issues ranging from social learning, to representations of war and terrorism, to gender and hyper-masculinity. Each chapter features original artwork presenting a story in the style of a graphic novel to demonstrate the concepts at hand. Truly unique in its approach to the subject and medium, this volume is an excellent resource for undergraduate students of communication and media theory as well as anyone interested in understanding the causes and effects of violence in media"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Violence in mass media.
Visual communication -- Social aspects -- United States
Mass media -- Influence.
Violence in popular culture -- United States
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Communication.
Visual communication -- Social aspects.
Violence in popular culture.
Mass media -- Influence.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Graphic novels.
Social learning.
Violence in mass media.
United States.
Form Electronic book
Author Fuller, Tristan, illustrator
LC no. 2020694174
ISBN 9781351112499
135111249X
9781351112512
1351112511
9781351112505
1351112503
9781351112482
1351112481
0815362293
9780815362296