You can still see the negative effects of violence in entertainment today as you could in Roman civilization. Such effects include drinking, hustling and gambling, and riots. All of these you could observe at horse racing, sporting, and theatre in Roman times as you can see at baseball, football games and boxing matches today.
Even though organized public sports are all in good fun, some of them encourage or put a false sense of good in violence and maybe that's why so many people don't get enough fun out of the games themselves that they have to bet on events and drink while they are at these events. The drinking and gambling also took place in Roman civilization at such events as organized public sports and especially boxing (an even more brutal sport) where people have died participating accidentally.
Boxing, two guys beating the crap out of each other for money (or in Roman times, for their lives). Don't get me wrong, I love a good fight as much as the next guy, but when a sport that is intended for mature viewers is seen by young children, they might get a false sense of good by the people cheering in the background. It is sad that it is like that now because it did not happen in Roman times (where you had to actually see the fight). .
Theatre and acting as certainly taken on a different role since the roman ages. But then again, it still has many similar elements that visualize violence. In Roman times there were female actresses that would strip on stage, but I can just turn on Cinemax late at night and see that. So can the viewer that is not supposed to be watching it (children) get a false sense of feeling for a woman and that leads to sexism and all that. .
Maybe the television, videos, i.e. ultimate fighting championships, and other telecommunications, i.e. the internet, (pornography, wrestling) might be responsible for extorting violence from the minds into history, or maybe it's our own nature, but I don't think that people have targeted the direct source of violence, entertainment.
Their new scapegoat is violent entertainment. ... But have been blamed too much for the cause of teen violence. ... So do games in which you kill dead cops cause violence? ... Does violence in entertainment cause real life violence? ... We should really reconsider what is more violent, fake violence or real violence? ...
Violence in Entertainment Violence in entertainment has been a problem in this past decade in how it affects the lives of children. ... Back in the 1950's and 60's there wasn't too much violence, strong language or adult content in movies. ... Kids nowadays think that movies with guns and violence are "cool." ... Another form of entertainment that can affect a child's life is music. ... Lastly, the other forms of entertainment that can affect the lives of children are television shows and video games. ...
If BET were to be turned on right now, one would see the black race living the life of violence, sex, drugs, and money. ... Black Entertainment Television constructs the black race in a degrading way. ... Of course it is entertainment, but it is not sending a good definition of the Black race to the viewers. ... But it is understandable that MTV did not want the image of gangs and violence on their network. ... According to BET, their mission is to provide entertainment to predominantly the African community. ...
Entertainment What is entertainment? Has entertainment changed over time? ... Blood and violence were not the only forms of entertainment back then. ... In our movies we have all the death, blood, and violence that the Roman's saw in the colosseum, and we do everything we can to glorify it more. ... What is entertainment? ...
Video Game Violence There are many different views about video games and the effects violence has on children and society as a whole. ... Perhaps one may become desensitized to artificial violence, but at the same time not to real world violence. ... If any kind of video game violence is harmful, Type B violence is definitely that kind of video game violence. ... The entertainment value of some video games is tremendous, they say. Some games are time-wasting entertainment, and that's not a bad thing. ...
Such entertainment has become a large part of modern society. ... (Violence in Entertainment and Its Effect of Society) Despite these brief studies the long-term effects of violent programming have had minimal amounts of research. ... Up to this point, the presence of violence in virtually all mediums of entertainment has become obvious. Have we reached a point in history where violence can be the actual source of entertainment? Violence as entertainment dates back centuries. ...
Violence is on the up rise, or is it declining by the hour? ... Violence is in our everyday lives, we see it without even trying to or wanting to. ... The violence on TV is there to be watched or not to be watched, it is your personal choice to watch the violence displayed on TV shows and or movies. ... But it doesn't just give me entertainment it also inspired me to try to help people because in the show even though it has a lot of violence it made me think abour helping others. ... The viewers are informed of the violence and it is their choice to watch it or not. ...
The level of violence that they see on prime time television is about five violent acts per hour and the level of violence on Saturday that includes cartoons morning programming is about 20 to 25 violent acts per hour. ... As a child sits in front of baby-sitting television, her eyes are glued to the viewing of shoot em' up rip em' up kind of entertainment. We have to remember that the entertainment media plays an extremely powerful role in the formation of values and morals, to all youngsters' minds of all ages, all socioeconomic levels, and all levels of intelligence....
This disparaging comment towards violence in society no doubt would be heartily approved by those attempting to cut violence out of the entertainment industry. ... So why is there so much negative backlash against violence in the entertainment industry? ... When violence is intended for entertainment purposes only, we should just leave it at that. Empirically, entertainment is something that amuses or pleases and so we should enjoy the violence created for entertainment as it was meant to be. ... And although there are some who are ignorant, it would hardly be fair to punish the majority of pe...