Jeffrey Sconce is a professor and cultural historian of media and film.[1] He is a professor in the Screen Cultures program at Northwestern University.[2][3][4] (wikipedia)
The study resonated because I was writing at a time when people were making amazing predictions about new technologies, such as computers -- saying they could save us from everything,
disproportionately the number of crime victims in movies and television.
TV had always been the forbidden bad fruit in academia,
are much more artistic and vibrant now than the cinema.
They are always terrorized and chased by sadists and psychos,
For a long time, we only asked questions such as, 'Does TV make kids stupid? Does TV make kids violent?' So the field was understudied.
For a long time, no one ever wanted to admit that television was anything but this horrible, horrible contagion in society.
But ignoring TV is like trying to ignore a 2-ton elephant.
Sadistic is the only word to use for some of these shows.
You see people taking storytelling more seriously, ... Shows like 'Lost' and '24' have complex narratives you couldn't think about doing in film.
