Abstract

Recent social scientific research into the potential negative effects of viewing media violence has focused on the context in which violence is depicted and found that some ways of depicting violence may carry greater risks of negative effects for viewers than others. When this research is compared to the Motion Picture Production Code's restrictions on depictions of film violence, there is an amazing degree of overlap between the two, despite the fact that at the time the Code was written, during 1929 and 1930, there was no such research in existence on which its drafters could rely.

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