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By Karen Boyle

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Media and Violence will pay equivalent awareness to the creation, content material and reception interested in any illustration of violence. This e-book deals a framework for knowing how violence is represented and consumed. It examines the connection of media, gender, and real-world violence; representations of violence in reveal leisure; the results of violent media on shoppers; the ethics and gender politics of the construction approaches of reveal violence; and the discussions are illustrated with topical and recognized examples, permitting the reader to severely interact with the debates.

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The Sun casts Mr Richards in the role of expert, his personal testimony challenging ‘airy-fairy’ academic theories of media influence and reinforcing The Sun’s established position on media effects. Straightforward enough. Yet, even if we accept that he sought to emulate the screen gangsters, Mr Richards’ son could not have held the newsagents at gunpoint without a gun. It is perhaps not difficult to imagine why Mr Richards is more interested in the influence of a movie than in explaining how his son had access to a firearm.

In particular, anti-censorship feminists have been concerned with the ways in which the ‘pornographic’ is defined and ‘pornographic’ materials are restricted, arguing that this is bound up with broader questions about State control, class and sexual repression. Violence is not central here and anti-censorship writers argue that anti-pornography feminists overestimate or exaggerate the amount of explicit violence in pornographic media (Rubin, 1993), fail to acknowledge the agency of women performers (Owens, 1993; Royalle, 1993; Williams, 1993) and ignore the complex pleasures pornography offers its consumers (Vance, 1984).

Given the problems with effects research, this has made anti-pornography feminism a sitting duck for criticism and diverted attention away from other key issues – such as abusive production and consumption practices – that have also, as we will see, been central to anti-pornography feminism (Boyle, 2000). 1 More commonly, feminist opponents of the anti-pornography position identify themselves as anti-censorship. This has led many commentators to assume that anti-pornography feminists’ primary goal is censorship and that anti-censorship feminists are necessarily propornography: neither characterisation is accurate or helpful.

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