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Violence in Films: Three Preconditions for the Mimetic Effect
- Authors: Tarasov K.A1,2
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Affiliations:
- VGIK
- Moscow State Institute of International Relations
- Issue: Vol 8, No 2, 2016
- Pages: 84-96
- Section: SCREEN CULTURE | CULTURAL STUDIES. PHILOSOPHY
- URL: https://vestnik-vgik.com/2074-0832/article/view/14709
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/VGIK8284-96
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The author tests the hypothesis of the cause-and-effect link between showing violence in the movies with its manifestations in real life as exemplified in Russian material and gives empirical evidence proving this hypothesis.
violence in films, the “aggressive film diet” on the television screen, the rising generation, mass perception, the hypothetical “risk group”, cause-and-effect link, statistical quasiexperiment
Tarasov Kirill A
PhD in Culturology, senior researcher at Cinema Sociology Department, Institute of Film Art; associate professor at the Department of Sociology
VGIK; Moscow State Institute of International Relations
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Email: k.tarasov@inno.mgimo.ru
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