期刊名称：Geografia : Malaysian Journal of Society and Space
电子版ISSN：2180-2491
出版年度：2015
卷号：11
期号：9
页码：86-98
出版社：Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
摘要：A focus on "mea ning-making" entertainment may provide a fra mework for understanding audience viewing experience. This study is designed to contribute to the study of violence in the media along with finding out any hidden meaning behind the vie wing attraction to violent content. A total of 233 randomly sampled participants from Malaysia was assigned to rate one of the eight film trailers that varied in levels of gore and meaningfulness but a re equally suspenseful according to the pretest conducted by Bartsch and Mares (2014) . The results suggested that meaningful contents somehow featured portrayals of gore and violence. These portrayals would either generate feelings of acceptance or aversion that were signified. Violent content was not inherently enjoyable, but instead was accompanied by other features that did increase enjoyme nt, and in this case, it was eudaimonia. Our data also suggested that some other factor was driving enjoyment of the films that often accompanied the violent content – meaningful feature
