Violence on screen is routinely sanitized by staging it off camera

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Televised violence is kept off camera to avoid viewer revulsion; Violence is sanitized on screen because viewers find raw violence aversive — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 939; Western peacekeeper violence is collectively performed, photographed, sexualized, and then excused

Broader Connections

• Violence is sanitized on screen because viewers find raw violence aversive #expands (0.95) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 939
• Televised violence is kept off camera to avoid viewer revulsion #corroborates (0.93)