What:

Copycat crimes: art and media

 

With:

1. Natural Born Killers

2. Elephant

3. Bowling for Columbine

4. Salinger

 

Why:

• How, and in which way, can media and art strongly influence the acting of an individual?

• Can a movie, or a book, be considered one of the reasons of a murder or a massacre?

• Is there any responsability in art and media for copycat crimes?

• What else should be considered in the analysis of this phenomenom?

 

Extra:

A copycat crime is a criminal act that is modelled or inspired by a previous crime that has been reported in the media or described in fiction.

 

From "copycat": 1.1 Denoting an action, typically a crime, carried out in imitation of another: copycat killings. (The Oxford Dictionary)