Violence on television : a case study of violence on english prime-time television in Singapore.

• Main Author: Kor, Vincent Min Yee.
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Mass media::Broadcasting::TV
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/42727
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

There are no bystanders in the debate about television violence. Everyone is either a believer in its cathartic properties : "Exposure to properly presented violence acts as a therapeutic release for anger and self-hatred which are present in almost everybody" (Baldwin and Lewis, 1972),...