Violence in the media
By: Jodie Lynn Boduch, book editor.
Contributors: Boduch, Jodie Lynn.
Series: The history of issues; An opposing viewpoints series; Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780737728750
Subjects: Violence in mass media.
Notes: Chiefly a collection of previously published (1933-2007) articles, essays, etc.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-177) and index.
Table of contents: value: Violence as spectacle in ancient Rome / Sissela Bok; value: Murder news as cultural event in Victorian England / L. Perry Curtis Jr.; value: Movies have a wide range of influence on youth / W.W. Charters; value: Mass media is teaching violence as a solution to problems / Fredric Wertham; value: Violent news images affect public opinion / David Culbert; value: Lessons learned from media violence / Robert M. Liebert, Emily S. Davidson, and John M. Neale; value: A lack of consensus on the effects of media violence / Media Awareness Network; value: Legal and ethical challenges to violence imagery in the news / Wendy Lesser; value: Videogames teach children how to shoot guns / Clive Thompson; value: Violent entertainment should not be marketed to children / Bill Clinton; value: Violence in entertainment media is good for kids / Gerard Jones; value: Moral relativism, not violence, is the problem / Jonah Goldberg; value: Media violence often has no moral lesson / Patrick McCormick; value: Government regulations on violence in entertainment media / Jess Cagle, Mitch Frank, and Mark Thompson; value: Health care professionals should factor the news into the media violence debate / Juliette H. Walma van der Molen; value: The public must move from awareness to action / Elizabeth Thoman; value: Chronology; value: Organizations to contact.