Media violence

Violence The last five years have seen an increase in the stand on violence in movies. As action movies with their big stars are taken to new heights every year, more people seem to argue that the violence is influencing our country÷Õ youth. Yet, each year, the amount of viewers also increases. This summer÷Õ smash hit Independence Day grossed more money than any other film in history, and it was full of violence. The other …

…the Line of Fire are just a few. Even with all this violence on both the small and big screen, Hinson makes a clear statement that real-life violence is the problem, not movie violence. He feels that people fear screen violence because they fear we might become what is depicted on screen. Hinson feels that to enjoy violence, one must be able to distinguish between what is real and what is not (Hinson 587). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**