the mind of a person, as though he'll watch too much and go off the deep end and start strangling cats or something. But go to any theater and watch the most mindless horror film Ñ let's say one of the Friday the Thirteenth movies Ñ with the intended audience of 14-19 year olds, and you'll find that they never get confused. Jason is on the screen. They're sitting in a chair. Screen, chair. Jason, real life. They never get mixed up and think they are Jason, or that Jason is going to come down off the screen. They know it's only a movie (Andrews, p. 17). As we can see, the controversy is as heated as it is divided regarding the relationship of film violence and actual examples of domestic violence Ñ or violence in general for that matter. Battered Women Foremost among the categories of domestic violence, as indicated earlier, is battered women or what is also referred to a spousal abuse. For purposes of this discussion, this author is more concerned with physical violence than he is with emotional Ñ while, at the same time,
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