Anything and everything may come under the rubric of violence in a society that is by and large addicted to the images of violence that are an inescapable part

"This is criticism at its best." —Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times Writing in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as

Introduction; Motion Pictures; Music Recordings; Electronic Games; Conclusion; Index.

Violent video games are successfully marketed to and easily obtained by children and adolescents. Even the U.S. government distributes one such game, America's