Trends of Violence in Movies over the Past Half Century

Babak Fotouhi, Amir Tohidi, Rouzbeh Touserkani and Brad J. Bushman
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Babak Fotouhi: University of Maryland College Park

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Abstract: This study analyzes trends of violence in movie dialogues over the past 50 years using a dataset of over 160,000 films. Results show that mentions of violent actions have an overall increasing trend. After controlling for genre, non-crime movies also exhibit such an increasing trend, across the cases of male characters, female characters, as well as all characters combined.

Date: 2025-01-03
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