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Margaret Atwood begins her essay by explaining the distinction between mild pornorgraphy, which portrays the nude form and sexual activities, and violent pornography, which depicts extremely violent activities in a sexual manner. When discussing pornography, people often assume Atwood is referring to mild pornography; however, even though this pornography is considered “mild” by Atwood, the reactions and perspectives from people are rarely mild. The passionate accusations declaring opposing sides “prudish” or “perverted” lead to the question of what is the meaning of pornography, if there is any? Whether it

1. Sobchack’s argument pertaining to on -screen violence that she wrote thirty years ago was that any violent acts portrayed in movies back then was to emphasize the importance of an element in a story, an emphatic way of engaging the viewers and forcing them to feel what the movie was about. It gave them a sense of the substance of the plot which would allow them to feel for the characters and yearn for good to overcome evil. In other words, the effort made to engage audiences through depictions of violence created violence that was artistic and well done, or as Sobchack writes, violence was “aestheticized.” Violence was incorporated into film in a stylistic

Francisco Goya’s The Executions of May 3, 1808, is a remarkably interesting piece of art. This piece represents a protest against the Napoleon Occupational Army in Madrid. There are various visual elements and design principles in the art, which will be covered. The beginning of this ILO will contain the visual elements first, followed by the design principles, and what they mean in the artwork.

The portrayal of violence on television is shown in cartoons, comedies, horrors, dramas, and many other genre television shows. Some cartoons as well as other television shows, endlessly display violence--that youth often view as a form of entertainment. However, the actions and behavior conveyed on the television do not make youth commit violent acts. It induces them to believe that violence is just the standard way of living life. On the television, the lawbreaker gets away with the crime and does not face disciplinary actions, and therefore they are not held responsible for the repercussions of their wrongdoings (Menhard 11).

In his book, More Than a Movie: Ethics in Entertainment, F. Miguel Valenti examines nine “hot buttons” of violence – “creative elements that filmmakers use to manipulate viewers’ reactions to onscreen violence.” (99) These elements, posited by researchers conducting The National Television Violence Study (Valenti, 99) are “choice of perpetrator, choice of victim, presence of consequences, rewards and punishments, the reason for the violence, weapons, realism, use of humor, and prolonged exposure” (Valenti, 100) .

Coco Fusco and Gomez-Pena’s satirical piece was designed to exhibit “[the] Western concept of the exotic, primitive Other[s]” and even implicitly demean how Westerners view the “Others”(143) . While Fusco’s live performance was the actual reactions of the audience, but Fusco’s video “The Couple in the Cage” had other factors that gave the watchers a different view of the satirical piece. But, Fusco does not examine the role of her editorial decisions which leading the watchers into her own bias views. Fusco could have used different editorial methods or even forgo any edits of her live performance avoiding any biases when viewers watch “The Couple in the Cage.”

Quentin Tarantino is well known and often criticized for his depiction of violence in his films. Although at times graphic, Tarantino’s violence holds a purpose. This paper will look at two films, Jackie Brown and Pulp Fiction, and their depiction of violence and the aesthetics used. It will also look at classic film conventions and ultraviolence aesthetics used by Tarantino.

The violence, as well as cruelty in the two stories is seen from the way Captain Torres treated his prisoners in “Just Lather, That’s All” and also from the way the members of the community treated themselves in “The Lottery” with no sense of publicized guilt or conscience. Captain Torres was a murderer who did not care about the way he brutally killed his prisoners. Even from the barber’s conversation with him, the man shows no form of sympathy for those he killed but only expresses a sort of thirst for killing more people. The people of the community in ‘The lottery’ also participate in the tradition of stoning to death innocent members of the village with no apparent grief or remorse all in the name of it being a traditional practice. The two stories reveal violence in a raw and barbaric manner.

The main objective of this chapter is to describe violence and its purpose in a literary work.

Intensively striking war imagery emerges throughout the course of the text and therefore effectively joins its underlining fore.  Graphic images of the grotesque face of war characterize and develop the

Society thrives on pillars of morality, which could only be attainable from the people that thrive within it. Not all individuals appeal to morality. Some are born with predominantly immoral character traits. Due to this, they display various questionable behaviors that collectively lead up to the decline of the society and its values. All in all, multiple factors contribute to the decaying of community, one of which is violence. Violence takes up different forms, which primarily simulate a criminal nature. The vice has become so prevalent in society that creators of literature art pieces find it hard to resist incorporating concepts of violence in their work. In both The Cask of Amontillado and Trifles, the ability of violence to stand out as the central conflict proves the role that it plays in destroying the society.

Destructive and irresponsible freedom has been granted boundless space. Society appears to have little defense against the abyss of human decadence, such as, for example, misuse of liberty for moral violence against young people, motion pictures full of pornography , crime and horror. It is considered to be part of freedom and theoretically counter-balanced by the young people’s right not to look or not to accept. Life organized legalistically has thus shown its inability to defend itself against the corrosion of evil. (4)

These clichés are unfounded since most people don’t have hyenas or walk in the streets as witches. Of course, his intent in these photographs might be different, but the perception of the audience is often different from the primary purpose of the artist. In this case, it is demeaning towards his work. The topic under which Pieter Hugo was presented was “Generative Violence and Photography: Pieter Hugo and Zanele Muholi”. I liked the contrast between the two artists since it is so different and I will keep the title given. The artist I have chosen is named Kevin Carter. Unfortunately, he is a South African artist which is relevant to the greater exposure they get in the contemporary art world, but his story and his photojournalistic pictures are at the same time horrifying, interesting and showing the truth of the horrible happenings in Sudan. The fact that he is South African is negligible in this case due to the power of his work even though not choosing a South African artist was a primary goal. The title fits perfectly with his work due to the extreme violence his pictures

Francisco de Goya’s Pinturas negras, or Black Paintings, are some of the most grotesque and unsettling images in art history, with one painting in particular, Saturno devorando a su hijo, or Saturn Devouring One of His Sons, standing out the most amongst them all. With his wildly staring eyes, gaping mouth and half-eaten son in his hands, it makes one wonder what would drive an artist to create an image like this. Goya, however, was not uneducated in the horrors of the world, witnessing the travesties of the Peninsular War, the atrocities of the Spanish Inquisition, surviving two life threatening illnesses, with one leaving him completely deaf, and the death of six of his seven children. Perhaps it was one of these instances in particular that encouraged him to conceiving this disconcerting figure, or perhaps it was a combination of the three.

The film Pulp Fiction was an immediate box office success when it was released in 1994 and it was also well received by the critics, and celebrated for the way it appeared to capture exactly a certain pre-millennial angst and dislocation in Western capitalist societies. The term post-modernist, often used to refer to art and architecture, was applied to this film. The pulp fiction refers to popular novels which are bought in large numbers by less well educated people and enjoyed for their entertainment value. The implication is that the film concerns topics of interest to this low culture, but as this essay will show, in fact, the title is ironic and the film is a very intellectual presentation of issues at the heart of contemporary