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Savage Pastimes: A Cultural History of Violent . A Cultural History of Violent Entertainment. Schechter, who in addition to teaching 19th-century American literature at Queens College is the author of several mass-market true crime books , takes a new angle on the cultural violence issue. (2004). The good . "We belong to an innately violent species," argues Schechter. Among his nonfiction works are the classics Fatal (about nineteenth-century serial killer Jane Toppan) and Depraved (about America ;s first serial killer, H. Savage Pastimes: A Cultural History of Violent Entertainment by. Savage Pastimes: A Cultural History of Violent Entertainment , by Harold Schechter, New York: St. In this book he takes on the critics who argue that our present day popular culture offerings are exceptionally violent and polluting to the mind, and that the movies and video games, for example, have a negative influence on the minds of those . Rather than . New Editor for True Crime History Series - The Kent State University . In SAVAGE PASTIMES: A Cultural History of Violent Entertainment, Harold Schechter writes, "The current uproar over media sensationalism rests on two premises: that. Schechter, H. Send to Kindle. H. Savage Pastimes : Entertaining Violence | Britannica Blog“The bad news,” writes literary scholar Harold Schechter in his book Savage Pastimes: A Cultural History of Violent Entertainment , “is that audiences apparently still enjoy watching other people die in horrible ways. (2005)


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