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BL
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1018231
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b772601
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| Main Entry
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Boyle, Karen,1972-
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| Title & Author
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Media and violence : : gendering the debates /\ Karen Boyle.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;Thousand Oaks :: Sage Publications,, 2005.
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1 online resource (xx, 229 pages)
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| ISBN
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1281244465
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: 144621205X
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: 1847876218
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: 9781281244468
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: 9781446212059
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: 9781847876218
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1412903785
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1412903793
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9781412903783
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9781412903790
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-222) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- pt. 1. The media/violence debates -- 1. The effects of violence in the media -- Explaining crime or excusing male violence? -- Academic approaches to media effects -- Cultivation and content -- Summary -- Notes -- Further reading -- 2. Beyond cause and effect -- Pornography and violence -- Harmful production practices -- Using pornography -- The appeal of violence and horror -- The shock of the real -- So, what is to be done? -- Summary -- Notes -- Further reading -- pt. 2. Reporting violence -- 3. From Jack to O.J. : true crimes of male violence -- Crime and violence -- 'Rippers', their apologists and mythologists -- Reporting sexual abuse -- Virgins and vamps -- Domestic violence and murder -- Summary -- Notes -- Further reading -- 4. Deadlier than the males? : true crimes of women's violence -- Deadlier than the male? -- The cycle of violence -- Women who kill their abusers -- Doing it -- The maternal instinct and the bleeding mad -- Summary -- Notes -- Further reading -- pt. 3. Screening violence -- 5. Seeing (as) violence : film, feminism and the male gaze -- The violence of the male gaze -- Killing and thrilling -- Rape and revenge -- The male body -- Women, violence, sexuality -- Summary -- Notes -- Further reading -- 6. The days of whose lives? : violence, (post- )feminism and television -- Letting men off the hook? -- Soap operas and male violence -- The personal and the political -- Crime-time -- Putting men (back) in the picture -- Summary -- Notes -- Further reading -- Appendix -- Glossary.
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| Abstract
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Paying equal attention to the production, content and reception involved in any representation of violence, this book offers a framework for understanding how violence is represented and consumed. The discussions are illustrated with topical and well-known examples.
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Pornography-- Social aspects.
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Violence in mass media.
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Violence-- Sex differences.
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Pornographie-- Aspect social.
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Violence dans les médias.
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Violence-- Différences entre sexes.
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Gewaltdarstellung.
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Pornography-- Social aspects.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Violence in Society.
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Violence in mass media.
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Violence-- Sex differences.
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Geweld.
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Massamedia.
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Sekseverschillen.
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| Dewey Classification
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303.6
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| LC Classification
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P96.V5B69 2005eb
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| NLM classification
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05.30bcl
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