ISSN:
1521-0960
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
Multicultural perspectives : the official journal of the National Association for Multicultural Education
Publ. der Quelle:
Philadelphia, Pa : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 18, No. 3 (2016), p. 150-152
DDC:
320
Abstract:
Recent films in the James Bond series and the Hunger Games series have taken entertaining and sentimental versions of stories about violence in the struggle between the established state and rebels against the state. The craft of the moviemaker lends heroic stature to one side in this fight, thus justifying the use of violence. In these movies, different sides are made to seem virtuous. In the James Bond movies, the defenders of the established order are the good guys. In the Hunger Games movies, the rebels trying to bring down the established order are the good guys. Our ambivalence about violence, morality, and inequality in general is not resolved, but only masked by the needs of entertaining story telling.
Note:
Copyright: Copyright © 2016 by the National Association for Multicultural Education 2016
DOI:
10.1080/15210960.2016.1191277
URL:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15210960.2016.1191277
URL:
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1811319114
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