Jeffrey Sconce
Jeffrey Sconce
Jeffrey Sconce is a professor and cultural historian of media and film. He is an associate professor in the Screen Cultures program at Northwestern University...
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disproportionately the number of crime victims in movies and television.
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TV had always been the forbidden bad fruit in academia,
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The study resonated because I was writing at a time when people were making amazing predictions about new technologies, such as computers -- saying they could save us from everything,
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are much more artistic and vibrant now than the cinema.
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They are always terrorized and chased by sadists and psychos,
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Sadistic is the only word to use for some of these shows.
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Many shows this season ... had gruesome shots of women being brutalized and terrorized in very graphic and extended ways,
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For a long time, we only asked questions such as, 'Does TV make kids stupid? Does TV make kids violent?' So the field was understudied.
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For a long time, no one ever wanted to admit that television was anything but this horrible, horrible contagion in society.
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You see people taking storytelling more seriously, ... Shows like 'Lost' and '24' have complex narratives you couldn't think about doing in film.
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The networks have gotten into trouble when trying to show nudity, so the other avenue to get viewers is to increase the violence.
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But ignoring TV is like trying to ignore a 2-ton elephant.