> Opinion on TV violence > > >From Jennifer Evans These cartoons that are being viewed > today by children are much more violent than they were some 15 to 18 > years ago. This is surely a bit of a generalisation. On the BBC children's programme yesterday there was a 1947 Tom & Jerry in which T (i) sets a snare trap, (ii) tries to gas J in an oven is subsequently blown up, (iii) is decapitated by a falling anvil, (iv) inadvertently shoots himself, and (v) is last seen sporting wings and a harp astride a nuclear mushroom cloud, which he had perpetrated (by lighting a fuse, how else?) in yet another bungled attempt to exterminate J... __________________________________ Leo Enticknap Univ. of Exeter, UK [log in to unmask] ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.sa.ua.edu/screensite