Concept information
Preferred term
movies
Definition
- Film, as a reflection of society, conveys the hopes and anxieties of the culture in which it is created. In American film, criminal characters—mob bosses, robbers, contract killers, gangsters—have become posterized icons. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race and Crime; Movies]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- adolescents' movie viewing
- children's movie viewing
- cigarette use in television and movies
- deptictions of drug use
- Disney
- history of movies
- horror films
- Motion Picture Association of America
- movie portrayals of adolescents
- movie regulation
- movies and aggression
- perceived realism of movies
- pornographic movies
- rating systems and movies
- romantic love in movies
- sexuality in movies
- substance use in movies
- violence in movies
- X-rated movies and pornography
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/movies
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