Initial Ideas

Toms Blog Entry Number 3, but it is really the official 2nd blog because the first one was not so much a blog but more of a hello and welcome to my blog page because I'm a cool dude:
Today I am sitting in Media Studies completing what is supposed to be my first blog, but I'm a naughty boy. At home, my dog is pooing, but Carl said I shouldn't be talking about that.
My initial ideas for my exam study are centred largely around the concept of possible desensitization (through widespread access to mainstream films and video games) towards violence and other often explicit themes.
Possible sources are the Saw franchise, Manhunt (game), Grand Theft Auto (game), The Exorcist, A Clockwork Orange, Ed Gein, Reservoir Dogs, Scarface, The Hills Have Eyes, Hostel, Texas Chainsaw Massacre + Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Saving Private Ryan, Seven, Silence of the Lambs, Passion of the Christ, Pan's Labyrinth, American History X and stuff.
More detail could be gone into for more video games, but I intend to concentrate largely on films.

An alternate base for a hypothesis could be how largely highly regarded film classics (such as Citizen Kane and North by Northwest etc.) have influenced and shaped the modern day approach to cinema. It is unlikely that I will tackle this issue though, as I fear I may not maintain interest due to lack of blood and spillage of guts.

Tom out.