CMN 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Master Sergeant, Red Riding
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Many portrayals in mainstream media (like tv and films) Public actually underestimates amount of violence being present. Public actually has narrow conception of what constitutes violence. Conception is limited to physical violence = serious manner with severe physical harm to victims that"s presented graphically. The memory of an offensive act or two is what motivates public criticism, not an accumulation of acts reaching a certain number that surpasses ppl"s value for tolerance. Judgment of violence related more to degree of. Ex: car chase with multiple walltowall hits & etc vs. a single film shot of someone getting shot & blood and bones seen. Public"s conception of violence is keyeted to wehther the depiction is offensive or not. If depiction dwells on graphic elements like blood & gore, then the depiction is likely to offend viewers & trigger comaplins. So producers sanitize violence to avoid offending audience/interrupting flow. Humor appears to remove threat of violence when humor is a camouflage.
