Savage Pastimes

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Savage Pastimes is written by Harold Schechter and published by Macmillan. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0312282761 (ISBN 10) and 9780312282769 (ISBN 13).

In this cogent and well-researched book, Harold Schechter argues that, unlike the popular conception of the media inciting violence through displaying it, without these outlets of violence in the media a basic human need would not be met and would have to be acted out in much more destructive ways. Schechter demonstrates how violent images saturated the earliest newspaper, how art and disturbing images are not incompatible and how the demoaisation of comic books in the 1950s det up a pattern of equating testosterone fuelled entertainment with aggression.