The Mean World Syndrome

Synopsis

For years, debates have raged among scholars, politicians, and concerned parents about the effects of media violence on viewers. Too often these debates have fallen into simplistic battles between those who claim that media images directly cause violence and those who argue that activists exaggerate the impact of media exposure. Based on interviews conducted with George Gerbner before his death in 2005, the film urges us to think about media effects in more nuanced ways. In contrast to behaviorist models that see media violence as causing real-world violence, and limited effects models that question the impact of media altogether, Gerbner encourages us to move outside the frame of this debate to consider how the repetitive stories media tell constitute a pervasive cultural environment - a landscape of ritualized, often violent images that have the power to cultivate how we see and understand the world.

Main Cast

George Gerbner

Self

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Jeremy Earp
Writing	Script Consultant	Michael Morgan
	Writer	Jeremy Earp
Production	Producer	Scott Morris
	Co-Producer	Loretta Alper Andrew Killoy Jason Young
	Executive Producer	Sut Jhally
Editing	Editor	Andrew Killoy
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