Violence in Films: Three Preconditions for the Mimetic Effect
- Authors: Tarasov K.A1,2
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Affiliations:
- VGIK
- Moscow State Institute of International Relations
- Issue: Vol 8, No 2 (2016)
- Pages: 84-96
- Section: SCREEN CULTURE | CULTURAL STUDIES. PHILOSOPHY
- URL: https://journals.eco-vector.com/2074-0832/article/view/14709
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/VGIK8284-96
- ID: 14709
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Abstract
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.
About the authors
Kirill A Tarasov
VGIK; Moscow State Institute of International Relations
Author for correspondence.
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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