Tuesday, March 15, 2011

One Soda. Two Roommates. And a lot of Knives ...

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As many of you already know I am interested in the production and consumption of mediated violence as a form of entertainment.  What some of...
Monday, March 7, 2011

Japanese Culture from a Bemused Western Perspective

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This video, from the upcoming Japanese PS3 game Yakuza 4, showcases in-game footage of a cheeky (or perverse) game of table tennis between t...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Can Video Game Trailers Ever Be Art?

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          The camera pans out to reveal the lifeless face of a little girl staring back at us.  In the background, slightly out of focus, we...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

Freeze Frames and Frozen Minds

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          Hariman and Lucaites (2007) define journalistic icons as those “ photographic images appearing in print, electronic, or digital me...
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Designed to disturb: Prevention through agitation

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          The use of shocking imagery in advertising is tricky business; though both demand attention, they can threaten to overshadow or ob...
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Do you see what I see?

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A picture is worth a thousand words, which means a picture divorced from text that places it in its proper context can be exaggerated in the...
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And sometimes it is a chainsaw.

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     Suppose we accept as a given that the rise of torture porn in the United States coincides, strangely enough, with the re-emergence of t...