The 1979 incidents at screenings of The Warriors had been treated as horrific yet isolated episodes - isolated by their association with one inflammatory film. As a result, reporters and even some reviewers began predicting cinema violence at films by and about African-American men. Gang activity did increase in the US during this period, but media coverage exaggerated and sensationalized the problem, vilifying all African-American youth by association. Between 19, the US media largely forgot their fear of cinema shootings, or rather it was eclipsed by a larger moral panic over gang violence. Original poster for Boyz N The Hood (John Singleton, 1991).Īlthough there was relatively little cinema violence during the 1980s, the decade nevertheless changed popular perception of such incidents.
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