What pleasures and anxieties do you associate with your consumption of FMV?
Genre Relative to Likes
Action - The more destruction ad fighting the better.
Horror- Some gore is too much but some is watchable.
Psychological thriller- violence that mentally confuses you.
What constitutes justified violence?
Victim, Hero, Villain
Can teach us what society feels about fictional violence.
Anticipation of violence built up as enjoyable.
Anxiety over the possibility of the violent act happening to them.
Realism with in horror movies/ FMV has a rather big impact on how the audience react to what they're watching.
Debate around on of the main drivers as to why people watch things that happen to people in a film/ fictitious world. People can be ethical about those who watch these types of things.
Thinking and Feeling
Thinking
Ethical Cognitive and Attitudinal
Political Ethical and Moral
Ideological Ideological and political, social, cultural and economic.
Feeling
Skin Affective and sensation
Muscles Multi-sensory
Visceral Physiological
Emotional and Visceral
Embodied and Bodily
What are your boundaries and thresholds with respect to your consumption of FMV?
- Rape
- Eyes
- Heels
- Pulling things out of eyes
- Genitals
Risk Thermostat ( Hill 1999)
-Everyone takes risks
-Risk interactive phenomena
-Balance Potential risk and benefits
-Watching violence = Risk activity
- But watching violence = voluntary
- Thermostats set to certain levels depending on individual
Boundary testing and self censorship (Hill, A 97)
-Threshold types and contexts of violence, viewers find disturbing can be social ( collective) or personal ( subjective)
-Self censorship methods used to watch or not watch violence, i.e. physical/ mental barriers.
What are connotations of these words?
Effect- Fear of being scared
Risk- The understanding of the effect that will occur when watching violence
Influence-issues with people repeating acts in real life.
Harm-long lasting, lingering awareness of fear.
The debates that are linked with these worlds, have shifted in some respects from Effect to Influence. Relationship between texts and consumers cannot be simply defined. Change from it will definitely have that impact to, it could have that impact which has created a debate between risk and harm.
How impactful is FMV on audiences?
People watching violent acts and committing similar acts in the real world. E.g. James Bulger case, questions at the time were raised as to whether media influences on the killers were the cause of their actions.
Who is the Most Vulnerable (othering and stereotyping)
People that are deemed to be the most vulnerable when it comes to viewing violence vary from peoples perceptions the most common being;
-Children
-Teenagers
However this then sets these groups in to being stereotyped, a child is not born afraid, fear is learnt. I can be debated that in fearing about how others will react to forms of Fictional Media Violence we can distance ourselves from our own fears concerning FMV and how it influences us.
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