- Paperback: 150 pages
- Publisher: University of Luton Press (30 May 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0861965159
- ISBN-13: 978-0861965151
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,257,512 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The possible effect of television on its viewers has been a source of controversy for decades. Over the years, the "flickering box" has been blamed for every kind of social problem and antisocial act, and in many cases has been found guilty by an audacious but often surprisingly shaky range of studies. The hypothesis that television makes people mad, bad, or otherwise dangerous to know, has been tested in multifarious ways, whilst researchers have also investigated whether television might actually do viewers good. This book is a comprehensive overview and critique of this body of research. It examines all of the major studies in the field, drawing firm conclusions not only on the notoriously vexed question of TV violence, but also about the impact of campaigns which are specifically intended to persuade. The prosocial content of educational and everyday programmes is also considered. The book removes the academic arguments and findings from the vacuum in which they are often produced, and pitches them against numerous examinations of TV content, from "Sesame Street" to "The Simpsons", "Casualty" to "Cracker", and finds that there can be more to television than meets the eye.
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A very well-written, if sometimes over-ferocious, attack on those people who think that society will become really nice and crime-free if we get rid of TV and movie violence. The book looks at all of the studies that have been done and examines them closely to show how weak and inconclusive they really are. The author Gauntlett understands TV really well and this comes through in the book. Recommended.
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