Gun violence in PG-13 movies continues to climb past R-rated films

(Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania) The amount of gun violence in top-grossing PG-13 movies has continued to exceed the gun violence in the biggest box-office R-rated films, an analysis in Pediatrics shows. What increasingly differentiates the gun violence in PG-13 movies from those rated R is not just frequency but these films' 'erasure of the consequences' such as blood and suffering and the involvement of comic book-inspired heroes and antiheroes.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news