{"id":12265,"date":"2009-08-17T10:41:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T15:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=12265"},"modified":"2012-10-17T02:50:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T07:50:06","slug":"violent-film-advertising-and-childrens-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/08\/17\/violent-film-advertising-and-childrens-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Violent Film Advertising and Children&#8217;s Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt C. snapped some pictures of the advertising campaign for the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0374563\/\" target=\"_blank\">Captivity<\/a> (2007) in Los Angeles.\u00a0 According to this billboard, it&#8217;s about abduction, confinement, torture, and termination:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12267\" title=\"banned2\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/08\/banned21.jpg\" alt=\"banned2\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/08\/banned21.jpg 900w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/08\/banned21-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What Matt found interesting was that some of this advertising was placed immediately outside of stores that cater to small children and their parents.\u00a0 Check it out:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12270\" title=\"disney\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/08\/disney1.jpg\" alt=\"disney\" width=\"496\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/08\/disney1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/08\/disney1-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12272\" title=\"gymboree\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/08\/gymboree1.jpg\" alt=\"gymboree\" width=\"500\" height=\"389\" \/><br \/>\nDoes this suggest to you that we have become so desensitized to violent imagery that no one thinks to, or is empowered to, object when such images are placed at the entrance to children&#8217;s spaces?\u00a0 Or, is the image in question considered tame compared with other imagery we regularly consume (the billboard, for example) and, therefore, unremarkable?<\/p>\n<p>More pictures on <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcornell.org\/captivity.php\" target=\"_blank\">Matt&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt C. snapped some pictures of the advertising campaign for the movie Captivity (2007) in Los Angeles.\u00a0 According to this billboard, it&#8217;s about abduction, confinement, torture, and termination: What Matt found interesting was that some of this advertising was placed immediately outside of stores that cater to small children and their parents.\u00a0 Check it out: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,23703,133],"class_list":["post-12265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-marketing","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12265"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12274,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12265\/revisions\/12274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}