Television violence and public policy / edited by James T. Hamilton.

Essays originally presented at the Duke Conference on Media Violence and Public Policy, held at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy on June 28-29, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Media violence and public policy / James T. Hamilton -- Content analysis of entertainment television : the importance of context -- Barbara J. Wilson ... [and others] -- Content analysis of entertainment television : new methodological developments / James Potter ... [and others] -- Content analysis of entertainment television : the 1994-95 results / Barbara J. Wilson ... [and others] -- Content analysis of entertainment television : implications for public policy / Dale Kunkel ... [and others] -- Television visual violence in reality programs : differences across genres / Dominic Lasorsa ... [and others] -- Ratings and advisories : implications for the new ratings system for television / Joanne Cantor, Kristen Harrison, and Marina Krcmar -- Does viewer discretion prompt advertiser discretion? : the impact of violence. Warnings the television advertising market / James T. Hamilton -- Stop the violence : lessons from antiviolence campaigns using mass media / Myra Gregory Knight ... [and others] -- Framing of the television violence issue in newspaper coverage / Cynthia Hoffner -- First glance at the constitutionality of the V-chip ratings system / Matthew L. Spitzer.