Majid Yar and Alison Young Readings

Out of the Content Analysis approach explaining mass media representations on crime and Postmodern Pluralism readings, my favorite was the content analysis. Counting crime scenes in different movies over a period time can show a lot about what movies we prefer in our society and the rest of the world. It seem that more crime movies are being made more often than lovey dovey and comedy  movies because our society craves action filled movies where normal people just like us are breaking the law. It would be a great experiment if they could link crime related movies to the actual criminal behavior going on in our world today. I would believe the rise in violent crimes has been caused by public exposure to ever more frequent images of violence in crime films and crime related television shows. It would be cool to find out how many crime television shows were on from 1990-2000 and compare it with all the new crime television shows on from 2001-2011 I bet it has tripled. The movies and TV shows enforce ideas on us that  are run by big corporations, they choose what we see in movie theaters and on TV and without those crime related movies and so on, who knows what we would think now a days or where the media would be at.

I never really thought about how a movie can make me feel during a horrible scene and after watching Kill Bill in class made me realize that movies like that try to make us have some sort of feelings on what crime is happening in different scenes. When I watch scenes that have killing or raping scenes, I usually can't look at the screen and my body cringes. I feel sympathy for the victims and always try to image my self in that scene and try to wonder what I would do or not do.  Next time I watch a crime related movie I will take in affect criminological aesthetics and try to find the relationship to the images I am seeing and how it makes me feel and write it down in my next blog.