Transcript Violence - kapiticollege

Censorship & Film
OCR A2 MEDIA STUDIES
learning outcomes
• Understanding the concerns regarding
violence by the BBFC
• Applying a violent scene to the BBFC
guidelines.
• Understanding arguments for and
against violence on film.
Last Lesson
Key Themes: Controversial issues, causes for concern
and motives for Censorship
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Violence
graphic representation and realism
audience effecting the audience
Corrupt the young
Controversy and the Press
Sex and Nudity
Sexual violence
Religion
Class
Language
Shock
Violence
• What concerns might the BBFC have
about on-screen violence?
Violence – major concern for the BBFC
• possible relationship between violence
on screen and violence in the real
world.
• In making decisions BBFC concerns
are.
• Portrayal of violence as a normal
situation to problems
Violence – major concern for the BBFC
• Heroes who inflict pain and injury
• Callousness towards victims
• Encouraging aggressive attitudes
• Taking pleasure in pain humiliation
Daily Mail – Article.
‘Casino Royale’
• Lesson Recap
• This film was cut in order to achieve a
12A rating.
Casino Royale
• Apply the scene shown or any other
scene within the film to the themes
given under the 12A rating.
• Do they fit within the 12A or would you
put them in a different rating?
• Stairwell Fight Scene
There are some assumptions here, underpinning a
decision to cut a film for a 12A rating.
• There is a line that can be drawn in a
representation of fictional violence beyond which
it is possible to describe it as ‘excessive’
• This portrayal of violence may in some way be
harmful or damaging to some viewers.
• Both of these assumptions are problematic.
• Why?
• Interpretation – some audiences will
have different thresholds.
‘Moral Panics’
• A large scale response amongst the general
public (often generated or intensified within
the mass media’ that sees a particular group
or behaviour pattern as threatening to
traditional values).
• Example – Hoodies
• Actual crime rates!
‘Deviance Amplification’
• This theory suggests that the intensity
of the media spotlight magnifies the
true extent of any anti-social behaviour.
• Example - recent gun crime in London,
Birmingham.
Group task
• “There is a relationship between violence on
screen and violence in the real world”
• In 2 groups prepare arguments for and
against this statement:
• Come up with at least 5 points, each member
of the group must present one of the points
you have come up with.
Conclusion.
• The BBFC are concerned about on-screen violence
influencing real life violence.
• We have argued possible reasons for and against.
• The BBFC set a guideline for certain ages which can
be argued is generalising audiences rather then
treating them as individuals.
• Understanding how BBFC guidelines work in relation
to ‘Casino Royale’
Next lesson
• Investigating films which have caused
controversy