Violence is sanitized on screen because viewers find raw violence aversive

Evidence

Cinematic staging and editing techniques are widely used to make gory events tolerable to viewers. This is another structural means of mitigating moral reactions. For example, the camera focuses on a body part such as a hand in a death reaction rather than on the dying person. … Through these disembodying and sanitizing techniques, brutal beatings and killings are portrayed as relatively clean. There would be no need to launder violence in these ways if viewers craved it and found it inherently gratifying. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 939

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the vault’s claims about how harmful policies are normalized through abstraction and distancing - the disembodying camera work is visual moral disengagement.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 939