Violence in Films: Three Preconditions for the Mimetic Effect

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The author tests the hypothesis of the cause-and-effect link between showing violence in the movies with its manifestations in real life as exemplified in Russian material and gives empirical evidence proving this hypothesis.

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Kirill A Tarasov

VGIK; Moscow State Institute of International Relations

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Email: k.tarasov@inno.mgimo.ru

PhD in Culturology, senior researcher at Cinema Sociology Department, Institute of Film Art; associate professor at the Department of Sociology

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  4. Freedman Jonathan L. Media Violence and its Effect on Aggression: Assessing the Scientific Evidence. - Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. - 227 p.

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