TY  - JOUR
A1  - Żyśko, Konrad
T1  - Glorification of violence in British films depicting football hooliganism
T2  - Uniwersytet Rzeszowski: Zeszyty naukowe Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego / Seria filologiczna / Studia anglica Resoviensia
N2  - In this paper I tried to demonstrate that the British films depicting football hooliganism could be viewed as glorifying violence. A considerably great number of scenes and a great amount of time devoted to the presentation of violence, together with the unpunished, painless and heroic aspects of such presentations are just one side of the glorifying coin. The other side is occupied with the deeper meaning of particular scenes or the general overtones of the films which seem to develop a tendency to present a hooligan firm as a family-like community that offers happiness and produces a strong feeling of belonging and solidarity that adds spice to the boring working or middle class life. Violent confrontations are depicted as a source of pleasurable emotional arousal that surpass other forms of enjoyment. Moreover, confronting other hooligans helps hooligans to construct hard masculine identity based on physical prowess. Finally, being a good fighter is a fast track to earning a reputation that provides hooligans with a sense of power and importance. Real hooligans starring in the films, thus potentially encouraging viewers to become “wannabe warriors”, is also of great importance. However, the way the audiences react to the on-screen presentation of violence with all its aspects is a topic for much broader research.
KW  - Englisch
KW  - britischer Film
KW  - Gewalt
KW  - Fußball
Y1  - 2011
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/32547
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-325475
UR  - http://www.ur.edu.pl/wydzialy/filologiczny/instytut-filologii-angielskiej/studia-anglica-resoviensia/archive
SN  - 1641-7666
VL  - 8
IS  - 69/2011
SP  - 393
EP  - 409
PB  - Wydawn. Uniw. Rzeszowskiego
CY  - Rzeszów
ER  -