The effectiveness of the motion picture association of America's rating system in screening explicit violence and sex in top-ranked movies from 1950 to 2006

Journal of Adolescent Health

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 440-447

  Nalkur, Priya G ^a   Jamieson, Patrick E ^a   Romer, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Media sex; Media violence; Movie ratings; MPAA

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CONTENT ANALYSIS; MASS MEDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCREENING; SEX; VIOLENCE;

HUMANS; MOTION PICTURES AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 77958551414     PISSN: 1054139X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2010.01.019     Document Type: Article

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