Violence in the media and its effects on society"It was a scene straight out of the Academy Award-winning film American Beauty."This quote sums up my view on the media. This is a quote from a magazine article about Kristin Rossum and the murder of her husband. The media are a source of communication. This includes television, cinema, video, radio, newspapers, etc. It's unavoidable. The media plays an important role in society; it defines your life and your way of thinking. I will prove this by analyzing case studies I have done on films and magazine articles. The aspects that I will discuss to represent the role that the media plays in promoting violence within society are how the media presents violence, how the public reacts to violence, other factors that contribute to violence in society, my case studies and what they proved and finally how the Media protects society. The media presents violence in many ways. I will explain these methods by analyzing two of my contrasting case studies as examples. There are many different narrative contexts that media must consider. These are the fictional setting, the character's involvement, the form of violence and the physical setting. The fictional setting is the type of program or film. My case study examples are Beauty and the Beast, which is a cartoon, and Enemy at the Gates, which is a historical film. There are many other fictional settings, for example British crime dramas, westerns/TV series, science fiction, comedy, romance and thriller. The character's implication is who commits the crime and who suffers the violence. One of the scenes in Beauty and the Beast is a beast and a male (Gaston). The characters involved in Enemy at the Gates are German soldiers and the Soviet Union. The form of violence is the type of violence used. Some examples of types of violence are shootings, stabbings, explosions, fights, and physical violence. In Beauty and the Beast, the violence is mainly physical