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Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part One: The Media/Violence Debates. Chapter 1: The Effects of Violence in the Media. Explaining Crime or Excusing Male Violence? Academic Approaches to Media Effects. Cultivation and Content. Chapter 2: Beyond Cause and EffectPornography and Violence. Harmful Production Practices. Using Pornography. The Appeal of Violence and Horror. The Shock of the Real. So, What is to Be Done? Summary. Part Two: Reporting Violence. Chapter 3: From Jack to O.J. – True Crimes of Male Violence. Crime and Violence. Rippers', Their Apologists and Mythologists. Reporting Sexual Abuse. Virgins and Vamps. Domestic Violence and Murder. Summary. Chapter 4: Deadlier than the Males? True Crimes of Women's Violence. Deadlier than the Male? The Cycle of Violence. Women who Kill Their Abusers. Doing it. The Maternal Instinct and the Bleeding Mad. Part Three: Screening Violence. Chapter 5: Seeing (as) Violence: Film, Feminism and the Male Gaze. The Violence of the Male Gaze. Killing and Thrilling. Rape and Revenge. The Male Body. Women, Violence, Sexuality. Chapter 6: The Days of Whose Lives? Violence, (Post-) Feminism and Television. Letting Men off the Hook? Soap Operas and Male Violence. The Personal and the Political. Crime-Time. Putting Men (Back) in the Picture. Appendix. References.