Last week we discussed the changing use of language in our media, movies and books, and how we have gone from only finding the word damn acceptable for public consumption, to anything goes after the watershed. This week I want to look at how the use of violence has changed. Both visual, in movies and […]
At What Point Does Crime Fiction Become Merely Gratuitous?
Gratuitous or realistic; the blood and guts, and downright bloody violent scenes shown in TV crime drama’s and written down in crime novels in today’s world? You may think I have an opinion from the tone of the question but I’m not sure I do just yet. But I am wondering at what point we […]