Media Violence and Christian Ethics

Informationen zum Autor Jolyon Mitchell is Senior Lecturer! School of Divinity! University of Edinburgh and a former World Service producer and journalist. Klappentext How can audiences interact creatively! wisely and peaceably with the many different forms of violence found throughout today's media? Suicide attacks! graphic executions and the horrors of war appear in news reports! films! web-sites! and even on mobile phones. One approach towards media violence is to attempt to protect viewers; another is to criticize journalists! editors! film-makers and their stories. In this book Jolyon Mitchell highlights Christianity's ambiguous relationship with media violence. He goes beyond debates about the effects of watching mediated violence to examine how audiences! producers and critics interact with news images! films! video-games and advertising. He argues that practices such as hospitality! friendship! witness and worship can provide the context where both spectacular and hidden violence can be remembered and reframed. This can help audiences to imagine how their own identities and communities can be based not upon violence! but upon a more lasting foundation of peace. Zusammenfassung How can audiences interact creatively! wisely and peaceably with the many different forms of violence found throughout today's media? Mitchell argues that practices such as hospitality! friendship! witness and worship provide resources for viewers to remember and to reframe both spectacular and hidden violence in ways that can promote peace. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: regarding media violence; Part I. Media Realities?: 1. Remembering violent news; 2. Reframing news; 3. Re-envisaging photojournalism; Part II. Media Fantasies?: 4. Reviewing violent films; 5. Reinterpreting films and video games; 6. Reappraising advertisements; 7. Redescribing media violence.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jolyon Mitchell
• Editore: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 13.11.2007
• EAN: 9780521812566
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81256-6
• Dimensioni: 160 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
• Serie: New Studies in Christian Ethic
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Religione: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Cristianesimo