We Must Fight Culture of Violence ALL EDITIONS

By Mike Dillon ON TUESDAY, at the very same time more than a dozen high school students in Littleton, Colo., were being butchered by two Goth devotees, I was showing my students a film called "The Killing Screens," which used graphic clips from recent movies and TV shows to explore the cul...

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Published inNewsday
Main Author Mike Dillon. Mike Dillon teaches communication and journalism at Duquesne University. This appeared in the Pittsbuurgh Post-Gazette
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Long Island, N.Y Newsday LLC 23.04.1999
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Summary:By Mike Dillon ON TUESDAY, at the very same time more than a dozen high school students in Littleton, Colo., were being butchered by two Goth devotees, I was showing my students a film called "The Killing Screens," which used graphic clips from recent movies and TV shows to explore the culture of violence nourished by the media. Students chuckled-as did I-when Indiana Jones shot and killed a turbaned swordsman who threatened him. But then more images came in rapid succession: Several heads being blown off in "The Untouchables," Jean-Claude Van Damme making a grotesque break in an assailant's arm; bullets tearing through flesh in slow motion. The film added but a small amount to the formidable stock of violent images my post-adolescent students have already seen: By the age of 12, a typical American child has witnessed upwards of 8,000 media murders.