Deciphering Violence
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Ambiguous Violence
Anti-violence Activists
audience perception studies
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Capital Punishment
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Contextual Sequences
Deviant Violence
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Donna Shalala
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Exit Material
FBI Raid
Fox Hunt
Grammatical Voice
Informational Journey
institutional storytelling
Inverted Pyramid Style
media violence analysis
Message Structure
moral judgment research
narrative structure effects
Nonphysical Violence
Normal Violence
Performer Sequence
Popular Tv Drama
Sequence Conventions
social control mechanisms
Tv Guide
Tv Station
USA Today
violence representation in media studies
Visual Ads
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415917995
- Weight: 380g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Jun 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the current information age, Americans are bombarded daily with stories and images portraying a rising tide of violence. Drawing on media that includes television, newspaper, fiction, film, painting and photography, as well as interviews and focus groups, Karen Cerulo explores the ways in which individuals think about, depict and evaluate violence. Moving beyond typical studies that focus on violent story content, Deciphering Violence decodes the role of story structure itself and how the sequencing of facts can systematically influence our moral judgements of violent acts. The book identifies institutionalized forms of violent storytelling and raises new possibilities both for decreasing public tolerance of violence and increasing social control of the phenomenon.
Karen A. Cerulo is Associate Profess of Sociology at Rutgers University. She is author of Identity Designs:The Sights and Sounds of a Nation (1996) and co-author of Second Thoughts: Seeing Conventional Wisdom Through theSociological Eye (1997).
