Sentences with phrase «of violent entertainment»

Author and critic Harold Schechter, whose 2005 book Savage Pastimes lays out a social history of violent entertainment, notes that the trend divided the literati of the time.

Savage Pastimes: A Cultural History of Violent Entertainment.

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In response to this increase in violence, the Entertainment Software Rating Board has come up with a system designed to keep the most violent games out of the hands of young children.

RESOURCES Brown, Governor of California, et al. v. Entertainment Merchants Association et al. [PDF] Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Violent Video Games and the Rights of Parents

Among its brief was the request to examine «the portrayal of violent behaviour in the mass media and entertainment industries, and to review existing codes of practice for the reporting of violent crime in the mass media.»

The general community shock that followed these events found expression in a strong suspicion that the media, particularly the television and video industry, contributed significantly to these and other expressions of social violence through the heavily violent nature of much of their news and entertainment programming.

Grizzard, an expert in the psychological effects of media entertainment, has previously studied the ability of violent video games to elicit guilt.

The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders (St. Martin's True Crime Library)[Stella The ultimate news source for music, celebrity, entertainment, movies, and current events on the web.

One might go so far as to assert that the entertainment industry's efforts to manipulate and numb those who consume its products, its relentless commitment to leaving reality unexplored, on the one hand, and the widespread commission of desperate, violent, anti-social acts (serial killings, school shootings, workplace violence), on the other, are entirely comprehensible at the very least as complementary phenomena.

Personally, I still loved the multiplayer though, as it offered just enough of the same explosively violent entertainment that the single player offered.

Not only is it funny, it's very violent and showcases the brutality of hockey; you might even say it embellishes the fighting a bit but it's all for entertainment.

Watching a young girl in such a violent film is unsettling to say the least, but once you get past that element, the film becomes a top piece of entertainment.

As you can see from the «Unboxing» pictures below, this Blu - Ray edition from Paramount Home Entertainment features a gorgeous slipcover with the main cast from Noah against a backdrop of the Ark among the violent waves of the flood.

Paul Michael Glaser's film adaptation however turns what was a potent critique of America's thirst for violent entertainment, into an Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle of the most mindless and silly kind.

Running time: 129 minutes Studio: Fox Home Entertainment 3 - Disc DVD Extras: Widescreen theatrical feature film, unrated director's cut, Wolverine theatrical trailer, Valkyrie, S. Darko, The Wrestler, Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy, commentary by director George Tillman, Jr., screenwriters Reggie Rock Bythewood and Cheo Hodari Coker, and editor Dirk Westervelt, commentary by with Biggie's mom Voletta Wallace, and his manager Wayne Barrow, Behind the Scenes: The Making of Notorious, I Got a Story to Tell: The Lyrics of Biggie Smalls, Notorious Thugs: Casting the Film, Biggie Boot Camp, Anatomy of a B.I.G. Performance, Party & [Expletive](never before seen footage), The B.I.G. Three - Sixty, Directing the Last Moments, It Happened Right Here, The Petersen Exit, The Shooting, The Impala, The Unfortunate Violent Act, The Window, 9 Deleted Scenes, 4 extended / alternate concerts, trailers from: Secret Life of Bees, Gospel Hill and Slumdog Millionaire, digital copy.

After rising to fame with violent revenge features El Mariarchi and Desperado, cultivating a cult audience with horror comedy From Dusk till Dawn, and helming a segment of anthology effort Four Rooms alongside Quentin Tarantino, his ability to create entertainment for younger viewers had not crossed many minds.

A Fantastic Woman (Blu - ray) Details: 2017, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Rated: R, language, sexual content, nudity, a violent assault The lowdown: This Chilean feature, honored as best foreign - language film at the 90th Academy Awards, is a stunning and well - crafted drama about an individual's right to live her life as she sees fit, despite the prejudice and scorn of others.

It seems to have become a catch - all term for any piece of entertainment that's violent, whether it's a Tarantino film or, well, the latest episode of «The Walking Dead.

Bruce Willis's evil businessman owns a establishment where people can act out their most violent fantasies (robbery, rape, murder), free of the law, using artifical intelligent robots, who don't realise they are part of some form of entertainment.

Violent beings whose entertainment must always contain some form of mindless violence?

Featuring enhanced graphics courtesy of Udon Entertainment, Capcom will also add two characters (Evil Ryu and Violent Ken) to the game, as well as a first - person «Way of the Hado» minigame, and other new features.

In an article for Entertainment Weekly, King reacts to a recent bill in the state of Massachusetts which would effectively ban the sale of violent videogames to under 18's.

In Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, the case Bozell was writing about back in 2011, the Court ruled 7 - 2 that a California law restricting the sale of violent video games to minors was unconstitutional.

This violence also led to Congressional hearings to investigate the marketing of violent video games to children, and to the creation of the Interactive Digital Software Association and the Entertainment Software Rating Board.

The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) have refuted the report in a statement to Polygon, citing the Supreme Court's 2011 decision that it was unconstitutional to ban the sale of violent video games to minors in California.

A ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2011 (Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association / Entertainment Software Association) found that video games are a constitutionally - protected form of expression, and that laws restricting their sale or rental based upon violent content are unconstitutional.

This roundtable dialogue included firm representatives from Bethesda, Take - Two, Rockstar, and the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), in addition to vocal critics of violent media like founding father of the Parents Television Council Brent Bozell, and Representative Vicky Hartzler, a Republican Congresswoman from Missouri.

The White House and a number of lawmakers from around the United States are seeking to curb violence in video games either by restricting their sales to minors through establishing a rating board - which is already done via the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB)- or potentially by implementing a tax on select «violent» video games.

Drawing inspiration from the radically confrontational Viennese Actionists and the Happenings of Allan Kaprow and others, McCarthy quickly strayed away from his initial interest in painting and in the 1970s began composing performances with the goal of physically disrupting the sense of material comfort, general apathy, and violent cultural dissolution that he viewed as the results of the United States» consumerist, entertainment - driven mass media and popular culture.

A place where the old world of the urban fringe with its dust, dirt, and violent roughness exists alongside the new world of dense high rise pillars, shiny glass buildings, and well - designed areas for entertainment and consumption.

Yesterday the United States Supreme Court delivered a 7 - 2 opinion about violent video games: Brown, Governor Of California, et al. v. Entertainment Merchants Association et al. [PDF].

J. Craig Williams: Well Bob, in the 2011 Supreme Court ruling of Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, it was decided that California law restricting the sales of violent video games to minors violated the right to free speech.

The entertainment industry has continued to push violent content and has not been willing to confront the impact it has on children, according to Melissa Henson, program director of the Parents Television Council, who participated in the White House meeting.

Evidence in support of that conclusion was presented to the Supreme Court in Brown v. the Entertainment Merchants Association, she noted, which struck down a California ban on violent video games without parental supervision.

For years, video game developers and publishers have been participating in a ratings system created by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, which is intended to keep violent and adult content out of the hands of kids.

Night Trap, along with the original Mortal Kombat and Doom, featured violent content that helped lead to the formation of the Entertainment Software Ratings Board and the age ratings that it applies to video games.