Media Violence and Christian Ethics

By:

Jolyon Mitchell

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Paperback / softback

Series:

New Studies in Christian Ethics

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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, websites, and even on mobile phones. One approach towards media violence is to attempt to protect viewers; another is to criticise 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.

Author Biography:

Jolyon Mitchell is Senior Lecturer, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh and a former World Service producer and journalist.

Release date Australia

February 18th, 2010

Author

Jolyon Mitchell

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

348

Series

New Studies in Christian Ethics

Dimensions

152x229x20

ISBN-13

9780521011860

Product ID

4181182

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