"There is in fact no one thing, no chemically isolatable and analyzable substance, that is violence any more than there is one thing that is sex, even though it is easy to slip into talking as if there were."
— Violence in media

January 1, 1970

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Violence
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John Frasier, Violence in the Arts (1974: 9); as qtd. in Kendrick, James, ‘’Film Violence: History, Ideology, Genre’’, Ch.1 “WHAT DO WE MEAN BY ‘FILM VIOLENCE’?”, New York: Wallflower, Columbia University Press, 2009.