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In five pages this paper examines the impact of violence in the cinematic medium while considering the relationship between medial literacy and the responsible consumption of popular culture. Six sources are listed in the bibliography.
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for outrage. We have reached the point where our popular culture threatens to undermine our character as a nation" (Good & Dillon, 2002, p. 160). Violence in films
cannot be regarded only as entertainment because studies indicate it influences behavior and reflects contemporary society (Carter & Weaver, 2003). The so-called "everyday representations of violence" - against women
and among young people - particularly in graphic form are less susceptible to media censorship than is consensual sex (Carter & Weaver, 2003). However, its effects are every bit
as devastating to society, to the individual, and to popular culture. Recent studies have affirmed that film violence increases aggression within individuals and desensitizes young people to the effects
of violence. For this reason, the media literacy movement should be considered as a positive alternative to the negative repercussions that result from the popular consumption of violence in
teen slasher and action/adventure films. The so-called teen slasher genre became popular in the late 1970s and then seemed to disappear from the cinematic landscape only to reappear
again in the mid-1990s. Experts believe the popularity of such films reveal "heightened levels of anxiety in the culture, particularly with regard to the family, children, political leadership, and
sexuality" (Wee, 2006, p. 50). Links have been discovered between these violent narratives and increased adolescent and teen social pressures associated with increased divorce rates, changing family dynamics, and
ineffective gun control laws. The random victims in the renewed slasher film craze mirrored the increase in "real-life teenage violence" in schools across the United States (Wee, 2006, p.
50). However, the majority of Hollywood films are action adventures that feature violence purportedly "to excite and stimulate the viewer rather than concentrate on the story to be told"
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