violent art. Although this is not something that is new to today's culture. The ancient Greeks perfected the genre of tragedy with a use of violence. According to Hinson, they believed that "while violence in life is destructive, violence in art need not be; that art provides a healthy channel for the natural aggressive forces within us" Today, the Greek tragedy is not often seen, but there are other shows movies that embody and use violence. Tom and Jerry, were all popular prime time shows including the highly accepted NYPD Blue and ER are all violent. But in exception ER's violence was based on a surgical notion where a moral in the show was that when people get hurt it's bad therefore the violence was based on surgery and fixing people but what I felt about it was the fear in seeing people so helpless.
             There is a large range of violent movies in Hollywood. Typically, the more violence the more money it makes. Even Oscar winning movies, those movies that are "the best of the year," have violence in them. Silence of the Lambs and In the Line of Fire are just a few. Even with all this violence on both the small and big screen, Hinson makes a clear statement that real-life violence is the problem, not movie violence. He feels that people fear screen violence because they fear we might become what is depicted on screen. Hinson feels that to enjoy violence, one must be able to distinguish between what is real and what is not. Another essay, this one entitled "Popcorn Violence," illustrates how the type of violence seen in film and television is completely different than real life violence.
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