Introduction -- pt. 1. The media/violence debates -- 1. The effects of violence in the media -- Explaining crime or excusing male violence? -- Academic approaches to media effects -- Cultivation and content -- Summary -- Notes -- Further reading -- 2. Beyond cause and effect -- Pornography and violence -- Harmful production practices -- Using pornography -- The appeal of violence and horror -- The shock of the real -- So, what is to be done? -- Summary -- Notes -- Further reading -- pt. 2. Reporting violence -- 3. From Jack to O.J. : true crimes of male violence -- Crime and violence -- 'Rippers', their apologists and mythologists -- Reporting sexual abuse -- Virgins and vamps -- Domestic violence and murder -- Summary -- Notes -- Further reading -- 4. Deadlier than the males? : true crimes of women's violence -- Deadlier than the male? -- The cycle of violence -- Women who kill their abusers -- Doing it -- The maternal instinct and the bleeding mad -- Summary -- Notes -- Further reading -- pt. 3. Screening violence -- 5. Seeing (as) violence : film, feminism and the male gaze -- The violence of the male gaze -- Killing and thrilling -- Rape and revenge -- The male body -- Women, violence, sexuality -- Summary -- Notes -- Further reading -- 6. The days of whose lives? : violence, (post-)feminism and television -- Letting men off the hook? -- Soap operas and male violence -- The personal and the political -- Crime-time -- Putting men (back) in the picture -- Summary -- Notes -- Further reading -- Appendix -- Glossary.

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