Blood Splats and Bodily Collapse: Reported Realism and the Perception of Violence in Combat Films and Video Games

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Blood Splats and Bodily Collapse: Reported Realism and the Perception of Violence in Combat Films and Video Games

A clear definition of realism is understandably difficult for critics and theorists to agree upon when applied to texts such as the war film or combat shooter, which can have a very direct connection to events that have actually taken place. In this paper, I use textual observation and analysis to a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bender, Stuart
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Berghahn Journals 2014
Subjects:	violence cinema aesthetics digital media cognitivist theory videogames
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3029

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