Calls to reduce media violence target redundant brutality, not dramatic conflict

Evidence

Another justification is that curtailing violence will stifle creativity, leaving bland fare in its place. As noted earlier, it is not portrayal of conflict that people object to. Rather, it is the unrelenting use of physical violence to portray human conflict and fixation on violent solutions to it. Plot development is often sacrificed for gratuitous redundant brutality. Concerned writers expressed their indignation at being instructed to devise more interesting ways of killing people, and at finding violence added to their scripts without their knowledge. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 821

Categorization

• QUESTION: The claim that producers ‘prefer’ nonviolent conflict when freed from directives is empirical and testable — is there more recent evidence on creator preferences post-network violence directives?