{"id":34,"date":"2015-10-15T18:32:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T01:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tbarrozo\/?p=34"},"modified":"2015-10-15T18:33:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T01:33:23","slug":"realistic-versus-minimalistic-illustration-of-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tbarrozo\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Realistic Versus Minimalistic Illustration of Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Taken<\/a>

Taken from the article, Reframing the Axis of Evil by Aisha Bhoori<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Hillary Chute\u2019s The Texture of Retracing in Marjane Satrapi\u2019s Persepolis dissects the genre of graphic narrative used by Satrapi. She analyzes the elements, the style, and the juxtaposition of comic books that made Persepolis effective. Violence is depicted as ordinary from a child\u2019s imagination through the minimalist style. Although the illustration was simple, Chute explains how it shows the \u2018power of the radically inadequate\u2019<\/b>. It then questions the realistic representation of violence and how it has been normalized.<\/p>\n

Satrapi\u2019s depiction of violence is different from mainstream media. She argues that violence has become normal and to show it as realistic desensitizes it (Chute, 99).<\/p>\n

\"Taken<\/a>

Taken from Dear John Rambo by Daniel Rutledge<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Does mainstream media normalizes violence?\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

One of the most violent movies I have ever seen is Rambo (2008). At the age of 13, watching Vietnamese get massacred\u00a0scared me to death. The realistic illustration\u00a0of violence is almost traumatizing for a child to see. Lives weren\u2019t valued. Nobody\u00a0 mourned. Killing became ordinary.<\/p>\n

The Godfather (1972) is a mob drama with horrific images as well. Even though it\u2019s not as gory as Rambo, its representation of violence as being part of their lifestyle is almost the same.<\/p>\n

There are hundreds of movies and television shows that reduce violence and make it ordinary. However, the trauma it produces to children is still the same. Satrapi\u2019s simple portrayal\u00a0of violence as seen through the eyes of a child intensify its content. Readers tend to focus more on what Satrapi\u2019s trying to say rather than the images of torture seen in the graphic narrative. Even though it wasn\u2019t as gory, bloody, or realistic as Rambo, the effect it produces globally was staggering.<\/p>\n

But if a\u00a0simple depiction of violence got great reviews, why do mainstream media keep producing violent visualizations?\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hillary Chute\u2019s The Texture of Retracing in Marjane Satrapi\u2019s Persepolis dissects the genre of graphic narrative used by Satrapi. She analyzes the elements, the style, and the juxtaposition of comic books that made Persepolis effective. Violence is depicted as ordinary from a child\u2019s imagination through the minimalist style. Although the illustration was simple, Chute explains how it shows the \u2018power of the radically inadequate\u2019. It then questions the realistic representation of violence and how it has been normalized. Satrapi\u2019s depiction of violence is different from mainstream media. She argues that…read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[831545],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astu","et-no-image","et-bg-layout-dark","et-white-bg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tbarrozo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tbarrozo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tbarrozo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tbarrozo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tbarrozo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tbarrozo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tbarrozo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tbarrozo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tbarrozo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tbarrozo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}