Aestheticization of violence
The aestheticization of violence in high culture art or mass media is the depiction of or references to violence in what Indiana University film studies professor Margaret Bruder calls a ""stylistically excessive,"" ""significant and sustained way."" When violence is depicted in this fashion in films, television shows, and other media, Bruder argues that audience members are able to connect references from the ""play of images and signs"" to artworks, genre conventions, cultural symbols, or concepts.