Keywords: Violent Television
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 08 November 2013
1 Comment
'Many Catholics wonder how we can maintain our Christian faith at this time in the wake of the sexual abuse crisis and the many judgmental utterances about sexuality and reproduction. The Church that has spoken longest and loudest about sex in all its modalities seems to be one of the social institutions most needing to get its own house in order.' Frank Brennan's address to the Yarra Institute for Religion and Social Policy, 8 November 2013.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 03 October 2013
18 Comments
'What a pope; what a man! ... The credibility of the Catholic Church has been enhanced with this new pope. We see in him many of the finest aspects of the presently battered and ageing Church.' Frank Brennan's presentation for Spirituality in the Pub, Pumphouse Hotel, Fitzroy, Vic. on 2 October 2013.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 21 June 2013
1 Comment
Violence is a messy business, even when it is your 'business'. To father, husband and mafia boss Tony Soprano, the conflicting demands of being both a family man and a 'family' man present numerous moral, practical and emotional conflicts. In this role, James Gandolfini took viewers from the softest to the hardest potentialities of human nature.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 20 December 2012
3 Comments
One man suffers the shame of sex addiction. For another, a quadriplegic, sex is a matter of dignity. Two couples meet for a civilised discussion about their children's behaviour, but civility collapses. An antihero embraces violence as a solution to exploitative American media. Eureka Street counts down its essential films of 2012.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 22 November 2012
2 Comments
A teen attempts suicide after being ridiculed by the judges of an American Idol style talent show. A news anchor spouts propaganda so extreme it might make a Fox News presenter blush. A reality TV participant extracts an in-use tampon and hurls it at a rival. Appalled by this endless stream of TV trash, one man snaps.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 18 October 2012
On a television in a grimy bar, Barack Obama waxes lyrical about the unity of the people. In the foreground, a brutal and enigmatic enforcer of the criminal underworld scoffs. America is not a community, he counters — it's a business. 'I'm living in America, and in America, you're on your own.'
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Kevin
- 20 August 2012
21 Comments
Julian Assange sits securely in the Embassy of Ecuador in London, as Cardinal József Mindszenty did for years inside the US Embassy in Communist-ruled Hungary. This is a benefit of the Vienna Convention. If Britain violated this principle by storming or cutting off utilities to the Embassy, the diplomatic protection of its officials and their families around the world would be weakened immediately.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 28 June 2012
3 Comments
When a Christian man takes out his anger by literally kicking the legs out from under a crippled child, two women, a Christian and a Muslim, rush to help the child back to his feet. The women keep the peace in this deeply divided village, but the 'unity' is tenuous and to some extent a fantasy.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 20 February 2012
3 Comments
Opponents of the government's proposed R18+ video game classification argue that playing violent video games leads to violent behaviour. But researchers have found mental health to be a more reliable predictor of negative outcomes.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 25 November 2011
20 Comments
As anyone who has read or watched The Slap would know, violence is intimately connected with power, ego, frustration and sex. The most sympathetic characters are prepared to take on an adult world of subtlety and complication, on honest terms. So let it be with violence in our homes.
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MEDIA
- Ruby Hamad
- 14 October 2011
8 Comments
My family belongs to the same Alawite religious minority as beleagured Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. There are great and legitimate fears that Assad's downfall will result, not in democracy, but in civil war and large-scale massacres of minorities, including the Alawites.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Peers
- 06 August 2010
6 Comments
The Power Without Glory
trial ought to be read as a high-profile
and long lasting punishment meted out to traitors to a so-called
Australian normality. Frank Hardy's acquittal
and the campaign to defend his novel partly belong to mid 20th century
Australia's strong anti-Catholic undertow.
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