Media & the Culture of Violence
Featuring George Gerbner
Addressing specifically the question of violence and the media, The Killing Screens urges us to think about the effects of the media in new and complex ways. In contrast to the relatively simplistic behaviorist model that media violence causes real-world violence, Gerbner encourages us to think about the psychological, political, social and developmental impacts of growing up and living within a cultural environment of pervasive, ritualized violent images.
Intro | Stories of Power | Happy Violence | Accelerating Violence | Violence is a Social Relationship | The Lessons of Violence | Citizenship in the Cultural Environment | What Parents and Teachers Can Do