Content analysis of entertainment television: The importance of context

Television Violence and Public Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 13-54

  Wilson, Barbara J ^a   Donnerstein, Edward ^a   Linz, Daniel ^a   Kunkel, Dale ^a   Potter, James ^a   Smith, Stacy L ^a   Blumenthal, Eva ^a   Gray, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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