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[Mark Nornes]

On Aug 19, 2005, at 3:48 AM, Alex Zahlten wrote:

> While in the US, the "bad guys" are usually n the
> recipient side, with "clean" violence being the main form, in Japanese
> programs more often the positive protagonist is the one afflicted. 
> Also,
> much more emphasis laid on the effects, with protracted scenes of
> suffering which barely appear on the US side.

Interesting. But this certainly has something to do television 
self-censorship and federal broadcast rules in the US. One of the key 
features of the Hollywood action cinema is the hero gradually being 
beaten to a delicious pulp until his ultimate victory. One must be 
careful to think about all the external mechanisms bearing down on reps 
of violence, in addition to historical conventions and psychologies. 
Contextualization and historicization.

In a broad impressionistic sense, it would seem the most violent 
national cinemas in the world are Japan, Spain and the US. For my 
discussion of wartime reps of violence in Japanese documentary (J. Doc 
Film), I found Marsha Kinder's work on Spanish cinema very inspiring 
(Blood Cinema).

Markus
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