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Title Violent depictions : representing violence across cultures / edited by Susanna Scarparo and Sarah McDonald.

Publication Info. Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 209 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium monochrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1. Women and violence -- pt. 2. Visual violence -- pt. 3. The ghosts of violence.
Summary Anything and everything may come under the rubric of violence in a society that is by and large addicted to the images of violence that are an inescapable part of contemporary reality. In the wake of recent international events, many have come to accept the perpetration of violence as morally acceptable and a just enterprise towards peace. But what is violence? How do we identify something or somebody as violent? Is violence justifiable? If so, under what circumstances? Violent Depictions add ...
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Subject Violent crimes -- Cross-cultural studies.
Violent crimes.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies.
Subject Violence -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Violence -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Violence in literature.
Violence in literature.
Violence in mass media.
Violence in mass media.
Violence -- Cross-cultural studies.
Violence.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author McDonald, Sarah.
Scarparo, Susanna, 1970-
Other Form: Print version: Scarparo, Susanna. Violent Depictions : Representing Violence Across Cultures. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2007 9781847180995
ISBN 9781443808927 (electronic book)
144380892X (electronic book)