UC SANTA BARBARA

Undergraduate - Winter - 2019

Media and Violence

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Winter - 2019
165MV
4
  • T R 9:00-10:50am
    Pollock

Description

Violence + Film: It’s an equation as old as the movies. FAMST 165 explores the charged subject of on-screen violence and how it has evolved from the early silent cinema, including 1903’s The Great Train Robbery, to today’s film and television representations. Among the topics to be considered: the birth of “ultraviolence”; violent film and TV genres (ex: horror, crime, gangster); postmodernity and violence; and the discourses that address the possibility that on-screen violence causes real-life violence. You’ll see several of the films that were controversial due to their violent content, and which proved to be very influential to subsequent film and TV representations.

Cynthia Felando

Senior Lecturer

Research Interests