The purpose of this article is threefold. First, we provide project-based evidence consistent with risk averse and revenue maximizing behavior on the part of executives in charge of large projects. Second, we partially

This study investigated the impact of television violence on memory for advertising, tak-ing into account the possible role of viewer hostility arousal in this context. Experimental participants were exposed to advertising placed within a violent or a nonviolent film clip. One advertisement had 2

This paper explores the forensic testimony employed in James Benning‟s experimental narrative film Landscape Suicide (1986, 16mm, 95min USA). As a belated example of Judith Walker‟s „Trauma Cinema‟, this film in part re-enacts the court transcripts of two perpetrators of physical violence: Ed Gein

are controlled. Over the past 40 years, a body of literature has emerged that strongly supports the notion that media-violence viewing is one factor contributing to the development of aggression. The majority of empirical studies have focused on the effects of watching dramatic violence on TV and film. Numerous

Abstract. In this paper we present our research towards the detection of violent scenes in movies, employing fusion methodologies, based on learning. Towards this goal, a multi-step approach is followed: initially, automated auditory and visual processing and analysis is performed in order

Abstract. To detect violence in movies, we present a three-stage method inte-grating visual and auditory cues. In our method, those shots with potential vio-lent content are first identified according to universal film-making rules. A modified semi-supervised learning technique based on semi

This study examined the relatively long-term effects of repeated exposure to violent and nonviolent pornography on males ' laboratory aggression against women. Self-reported likelihood of raping was also assessed as an individual differences variable that might mediate susceptibility

This research studies the effects of viewing a positive or a negative (violent) film clip on the psychophysiological responses to social exclusion. While previous research has found impressive behavioral overlap between social exclusion and violent media, these two stimuli have not been studied

Abstract Violence, in films, is often generated by an 'immunizing' logic, which according to Roberto Esposito, is typical of contemporary societies. Esposito says that the immunizing logic can be seen in State institution, laws, territorial organization or ethnic communities identified

Efforts to censor or restrict violent images are actions by which a culture imagines itself through its relationship to aggression and violence. Throughout the twentieth century critics and audiences of violent content in film, television, theatre, and video games have renegotiated