"punitive attitudes toward sexuality were associated with greater overall enjoyment of the previews, and punitiveness was associated with greater enjoyment of the previews featuring sexuality. For male subjects, more traditional attitudes about females' sexuality were associated with greater enjoyment of previews featuring female victims." http://crx.sagepub.com/content/20/1/30.short This quote is about a study which was conducted to examine the roles that adolescents' attitudes about sexuality and punishment play in their enjoyment of R-Rated "slasher films". This links to my critical investigation as it states that the study revealed that males felt greater enjoyment and punitiveness (Punitiveness: Inflicting or the aim to inflicting punishment) from the previews featuring traditional attitudes about females' sexuality and female victims.
(Eli) "Roth commented that teenagers who were 10 when 9/11 happened are now 16 or 17. They have “grown up being told you are going to get blown-up. Terror Alert Orange… They want something to scream at” that is as shocking as the events of their lives" http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc50.2008/TortureHostel2/text.html This links to my critical investigation as it shows that the director of Hostel, Eli Roth, believes that there is a need for films similar to his, that there is a need for horror and torture porn as it allows teenagers to express their feelings and scream as much as they want and get all of their fear out of them in a safe and comfortable environment. The films therefore provides escapism and entertainment for audiences.
"A quantitative content analysis was conducted to examine the extent to which gender differences are evident in the association between character survival and engagement in sexual activities... Results indicated that sexual female characters were less likely to survive and had significantly longer death scenes as compared to those female characters who did not engage in sexual behaviors". http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/43/art%253A10.1007%252Fs11199-010-9762-x.pdf?auth66=1384955945_e5004eff7ecaa6921a5d644819ef8950&ext=.pdf This study states that females who have sexual intentions/behaviours in horror films are less likely to survive and have longer death scenes which links to torture porn horror as it means has sexualised violence to women.
"Recently the U.K. enacted prohibitions on the possession of extreme pornography with the passage of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act of 2008. The law targets the possessor of material that is both violent and pornographic... In January 2012, the chorus was singing of the death of the Obscene Publications Act after a jury acquitted a defendant of charges of distributing DVDs allegedly in violation of the Act." http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/mujlt6&div=23&id=&page= This talks about an Act that was in place to prevent the distribution and possession of extreme pornography. Torture porn may have ended up falling into this category.
The Human Centipede II was officially branded as offensive when the BBFC rejected it for classification. The critical press have predominantly supported the BBFC’s assessment, proposing that the series only and flagrantly aims to disgust audiences. http://scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar?q=cache:72QEEmwfTkYJ:scholar.google.com/+"human+centipede"&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5http://scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar?q=cache:72QEEmwfTkYJ:scholar.google.com/+"human+centipede"&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5 This quote is about how 'The Critical Press' and 'BBFC' both find that the Human Centipede only aim is to disgust audiences, not to entertain or educated etc,
In order to justify The Human Centipede II’s suppression, the film has been characterised as "harmful”. For instance, Tookey has sought to demonstrate that The Human Centipede II is socially damaging. In his attempts to avoid making direct “media effects” statements, Tookey relies on spurious coincidental juxtapositions to establish “harm”. His observation that ‘[o]n the same day as Mr Tabak was found guilty of Jo Yeates’s murder, I was exposed to the latest work by another Dutchman[: The Human Centipede II]’ implies causal connection, as do the linked questions that close Tookey’s article:
Do films like this help to brutalise some of those who see them? Of course…
Do we all have to live with the social and criminal consequences of these films? Yes.
And will there be more innocent victims like Joanna Yeates?
It seems to me that the answer is dismayingly obvious.9
More ‘dismayingly obvious’ than the implied linkages made between ‘these films’ and ‘criminal consequences’ is the fact that Yeates’ murder cannot be directly connected to The Human Centipede II, because The Human Centipede II was released after Yeates’ death. http://scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar?q=cache:72QEEmwfTkYJ:scholar.google.com/+"human+centipede"&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5http://scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar?q=cache:72QEEmwfTkYJ:scholar.google.com/+"human+centipede"&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5
Subjects were not aware that there was any relationship between this survey and the viewing of the movies. The results indicated that exposure to the films portraying violent sexuality increased male subjects' acceptance of interpersonal violence against women. A similar nonsignificant trend was found on acceptance of rape myths. For females, there were nonsignificant tendencies in the opposite direction, with women exposed to the violent-sexual films tending to be less accepting of interpersonal violence and of rape myths than control subjects. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0092656681900404
Exposure to media violence significantly enhanced viewers' aggressive behavior when the findings were aggregated across studies, but the effect was not uniform across investigations. Only suggestive evidence was obtained concerning moderators of the effect: Marginally stronger relations were obtained in those studies using a cross-section of the normal population of children (vs emotionally disturbed children) and in those studies conducted in laboratory settings (vs other contexts). http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/bul/109/3/371/
This research shows an association between watching a lot of TV and aggression. You then appear to suggest that this supports the theory that watching TV causes violence.
It seems more likely to me that more time spent watching TV means less time for social activities and it is this which causes aggression. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/295/5564/2377.short/reply#sci_el_426
No comments:
Post a Comment