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At what point in time did various countries make executions non-public, and what were the exact restrictions (in the US, family members of victims can watch, for instance)?
How realistic are movie executions? | Historical Film Analysis | As a new exhibition charts 700 years of public executions in London, we have assessed the ac...
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- Who Is Watching This stuff?
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- Is It Really The Violence We like?
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Some people are more likely to enjoy violent media than others. Being male, aggressive and having less empathy all make you more likely to enjoy watching screen violence. There are also certain personality traits associated liking violent media. Extroverted people, who seek excitement, and people who are more open to aesthetic experiences, like wat...
One theory is that watching violence is cathartic, draining out our excess aggression. However, this idea is not well supported by evidence. When angry people watch violent content, they tend to get angrier. More recent research, derived from studies of horror films, suggests there may be three categories of people who enjoy watching violence, each...
There are reasons to reconsider how much we like watching violence per se. For example, in one study researchers showed two groups of people the 1993 movie, The Fugitive. One group were shown an unedited movie, while another saw a version with all violence edited out. Despite this, both groups liked the film equally. This finding has been supported...
All this suggests that media companies may be giving us violence that many of us don’t want or need. We should hence consider what other corporate, political or ideological pressures may be encouraging onscreen violence globally. For example, the US government has a close interest in, and influence over Hollywood. Portrayals of violence can manufac...
Mar 28, 2013 · A recent study from researchers at the University of Augsburg, Germany and the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that people are more likely to watch movies with gory scenes of violence...
Oct 28, 2021 · But the question of why we are drawn to watch violence has received much less attention. Death, blood and violence have always pulled a crowd. Ancient Romans flocked to carnage in the Colosseum. In later centuries, public executions were big box-office. In the modern era, the film director Quentin Tarantino believes that: “In movies, violence ...
It does seem to be glorifying gore, though. Several hundred years ago, the population would enjoy public executions. Today, executions are brought into the average household through film and TV. But no, the main point of my question is why do we watch it?
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For this list, we'll be looking at the most memorable film moments where a character is put to death. Our countdown of execution scenes includes movies like “Law Abiding Citizen", “The Other Boleyn Girl”, “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2”, “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End”, and more!
