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Designing a New Method of Studying Feature-Length Films
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that it appeared to provide an explanation for how macaques, and by extension human beings, understand the actions of their conspecifics. Researchers speculated that, if the same neurons fire when a monkey reaches for an object, say food, and when the
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food in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs . Holliday suggests that in CG films garbage is reenergized and revalued through their impressive digital rendering. Chapter 6 is one of the highlights of the book. It suggests that computer
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he concludes that media violence does contribute to aggressive behavior. By comparing media violence to smoking, candy, and spicy food, Zacks presents the viewer as a passive consumer of harmful or extreme experiences, and argues that merely consuming