Childs play 3 and james bulger

Case study for violence in the media and real life.

The boys (Venables and Thompson) took james from a shopping centre and beat james to death and then put his body over a railway line and a train ran over the body so this is a link between the film and the murder case, but we dont even know if the boys had watched the film, and maybe they would have done them violent acts anyway as it was said by the director of the first childs play that the people who copy it are said to be unbalenced to begin with.

what is censorship

Bbfc= british board film certification

Key themes:

• Violence
• graphic representation and realism
• audience affecting the audience
• corrupt the young
• controversy and the press
• sex and nudity
• sexual violence
• religion
• class
• language
• shock

BBfc- major concern of violence

BBFC want to stop children copying violence so they certify films to stop them watching films.

May traumatise people.

Direct effect on the audience- Desensitised the audience, they think its ok (Superheros)

taking pleasure in the pain humiliation

Can talk about the reception theory as people have different ways of taking parts of the film.