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Documents the hearings held in 1972 by the United States Senate Subcommittee on Communications on the subject of television violence. The four-day hearings established for the first time a causal relation between violence on television and violent behaviour.
The Question of Television Violence - NFB. Graeme Ferguson. 1972 56 min. A film report of the hearings of the United States Senate Subcommittee on Communications investigating the effects of television violence.
25. Sept. 2023 · PDF | This review shows the television violence research into a broader context by examining if the media violence (epically television violence) is the... | Find, read and cite all the...
- Television in The 1960s
- Television as Teacher of Violence
- The Defense of Television
- Television Violence and The Scholarly Community
- A 1970s Public Television Approach to Television Violence
- The 1990s Shift to Guns
- A 1990s Public Television Approach to Television Violence
- Concluding Remarks
- Endnotes
In the early twentieth century, cinema garnered much anxiety about the effects on children and society. The first attempt at gathering empirical evidence for effects of cinema on youths and young adults occurred in the late 1920s and early 1930s in a series of questionnaire studies known as the Payne Fund studies. A monograph discussing the finding...
Captain Kangaroo was often praised, but it was a rare star in what was available.17 Parents and activist organizations rallied to confront the television industry and demand better quality programming. Mothers and fathers were called to rally together to restore “good taste, decorum and believability” to television.18 Exemplary of this effort is th...
A few commentators were emphatic about what seemed to be a ridiculous accusation. That “television portrayals of crime, conflict, violence, and gunplay bid fair to destroy the moral fiber of the nation is so much poppycock,” Francis Coughlin, radio writer and television columnist, said.26 The real problem was realcrime, stemming from the broken hom...
Regardless of these taming practices, the overwhelming social apprehension about television was met with a surge of negative attention throughout academic disciplines. According to some scholars, by the late 1960s American society itself was being destroyed, or at least in part, by television, and the nation’s future was at stake. Political scienti...
October 2, 1973 in a Boston neighborhood, a 24 year-old white woman, Evelyn Wagler, was walking back to her stalled car with a 2-gallon jug of gasoline. Six African American teenagers coerced Wagler into an alley, forced her to drench herself in gasoline, and then set her on fire. She died in a hospital two days later; the incident was immediately ...
Before a looking at public television discussions of television violence in the 1990s, it is important to consider the context of violence of the time. In the early 1990s, the United States was faced with what some described as “epidemic proportions” of violence, and the public was keenly aware of gun violence in particular.49 Though increased tren...
On February 12, 1993 in Liverpool, England, 2-year-old James Bulger was found brutally tortured and murdered by two 10-year old boys who had abducted Bulger from a nearby shopping center. It was asserted in UK tabloids and press that the 10-year-olds had watched the movie Child’s Play 3(Jack Bender, 1991), and had imitated what they had seen. Autho...
Television programs like these all investigate similar questions about the effects of television violence: why there is so much violence on television, what do children learn from television, and are effects indeed measurable. The most obvious issue that has changed over time is the issue of race and sexism in television that seems to drop out of c...
1Frontline, Does TV Kill?, Michael McLeod. (1995; WGBH Educational Foundation). 2Drotner, Kirsten. 1999. “Dangerous Media? Panic Discourses and Dilemmas of Modernity.” Paedagogica Historica35 (3) (January): 593–619. 3Ibid., 596. It bares emphasis that the designation of a moral or media panic does not imply a rejection of the objective reality of a...
1. Jan. 2003 · PDF | On Jan 1, 2003, V.C. Strasburger and others published Television violence: 60 years of research | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate.
Abstract. A meta-analysis is performed on studies pertaining to the effect of television violence on aggressive behavior. Partitioning by research design, viewer attributes, treatment and exposure variables, and type of antisocial behavior, allows one to interpret computed effect sizes for each of the variables in the partitions.
The Question of Television Violence: Directed by Graeme Ferguson. With Patrick Watson, Howard Baker, Leonard Berkowitz, Dean Burch.
