Dec 29, 2009

Is Media Violence a Problem? | Violence in the Movies Is a Serious Problem

Robert W. Butler is a film critic for the Kansas City Star.

Summary: Popular movies are more violent now then ever before in the history of cinema. In Hollywood’s first decades, bloodshed was hardly ever shown, but in the 1960s, filmmakers began showing more graphic depictions of violence with films like Bonnie and Clyde and The Wild Bunch. The 1980s saw the rise of the actionadventure film, with its high body counts, and in the 1990s films like Pulp Fiction played brutal violence for laughs. Violence has been so glamorized on the...