Violence in Films and Society
Abstract
Violence in films is not a new phenomenon. For over a hundred years, films have depicted social issues that deal with violence. The violence depicted in The Birth of a Nation almost a century ago was of a racist nature. The Ku Klux Klan targeted black people after the American Civil War and the film was sympathetic towards this violence. It tried to justify what white supremacists were doing to former slaves. If you watch that movie now, you wonder how that utterly racist movie was allowed to be shown in cinema houses across America.
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