Lesson: 25th February 2016

Case studies for media essay.

BBFC

• Looking at the 1980's - video nasties

• We need to look at the past if we measure change. 

• Evil dead and Human centipede 2

-> what has happened in the past 30 years from evil dead to human centipede 2

• They were both banned (1980s and 2011) 

-> not current so a new case study will be used for the real exam a 2015 or 16 film

• 9 songs - had pornographic scenes however that was given artistic merit so they could release it on this behalf in cinemas 

• hunger games - 12A - can watch children killing each other however have a stronger feeling and negativity associated with sex scenes rather than violence

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OFCOM

• big brother - upholding the law by evicting the male boxer who was discriminatory towards those who are homosexual 

• Woolwich terror attack - video before watershed shown on a loop, the loop was sensationalist causing a moral panic the clip was featuring a dead body, blood and a weapon 

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Video Nasties

The government pressured the BBFC to ban the film's but didn't even watch them 

Liberal

open to unregulated information 

Regulation can be used to control or protect

For reg:

• Bobo doll experiment (Bandura 1960) 

-> concluded that when watching a violent cartoon and then played with the doll that the children would violently attack the doll because of the cartoon

-> hypodermic needle 

-> media effects model has no worth? Wrong because media does effect generation eg bigerxia (body building) and anorexia (thin) 

Against:

• freedom and ir/responsibility 

-> revolves around an individual, self-interested, selfish 

-> individual freedom is the enemy of morality eg. single dad of 2 wants to leave his relationship to begin a new -> freedom but immoral 

so why do we reg?

vulnerable kids

vulnerable adults

legal responsibility -> stereotypes etc

is it about protecting society and morality?

Norms and Values taken into account

• our society is not okay with human cent 2 it's taking it too far 

• but ! who are the regulators to tell me what I want to do?!

-> upper class white men deciding what every type of person watches without actually knowing them

• they have conservative right wing traditional values 

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social change:

1980's

reaction of the newspapers in this story and why they did it?

who was Mary whitehouse?

why did teenage boys at school want to watch this and can we trust statistics?

relevance on politics and society:

• Margaret thatcher - conservatives get rid of liberal views and wanted privatisation 

• people could watch films at home through VHS you could hire from video shops and they were horror films majority of the time 

• this was dubbed by Mary whitehouse as the video nasties as 'nasty' films were allowed into private spaces like homes

• terrified that children would watch these so video shops were 'snatched' by police

• resembled a drugs bust

• daily mail right wing newspaper

• caused a moral panic because of the over sensitisation 

• everything blamed on video nasties