Hailey

Horrifying and eye-opening paper of the day: "Wait, There’s Torture in Zootopia? Examining the Prevalence of Torture in Popular Movies"

- in which the authors find that 60% of the 20 top-grossing films each year over a 10 year span (2008-2017; N=200) depict torture, including 45% of PG and 65% of PG-13 rated films; and that instrumental torture (torture used to obtain a specific outcome other than punishment) was depicted as effective 73% of the time.

https://www.erinmkearns.com/uploads/2/4/5/5/24559611/14._delehanty___kearns_2020_pop.pdf

Apr 4 at 10:44pmWeb
Show threadesc key21h ago
@hailey this is something I’m gonna start noticing everywhere now, isn’t it?
Show threadLR14h ago
@hailey this went really hard after 9/11
Show threadSeachaint13h ago

@hailey Something I love about "Hidden Assets" is that they keep raising copaganda tropes and smacking them down. Torture: evil and ineffective. Encrypted phone apps: the guy is brown and afraid of cops. Rounding up "usual suspects": incompetent move-follow the evidence.

The torture thing always stood out so badly to me.

Show threadPetrichor ᚄᚔᚅᚐᚁᚆᚃᚒᚔᚂ12h ago
@hailey Is this a study of only American films?
Show threadAsakiyume10h ago
@hailey Sadly unsurprised by this as I notice it So. Many. things that I see. It is terribly depressing.
Show threadzoë 🏳️‍⚧️9h ago

@hailey to cite a very fun manga:

(source: "Becoming a Princess Knight and Working at a Yuri Brothel")

Show threadYenn dc ☂️5h ago

@hailey

……… this isn't common knowledge..?

Honest question; I rarely bring movies up so I haven't tried to check it, but it feels kind of obvious…