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i am doing a research paper on animation and the contraversy over the violence and behavior in certian cartoons, particularly family guy. my question is are there any articals about: the affect of mature cartoons on children, the sytem of rateing on these cartoons (PG, TVMA, R), and why is animation being made for adults and made to appeal to children?

I can't help you with your paper. But I too have viewed Family Guy, and many times I've cringed at some of the devices and jokes it's used. I agree they are not acceptable for young people, children, etc., and some of us adults that aren't used to that sort of humor.

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I'm sure there are.

I am sure marketing sold them on their ideas based on some sort of demographic, but I think they missed their mark. Adult cartoons do have a market, I love to follow the King of the Hill cartoons, but Family Guy and that other one...can't even think of it's name, just leave me cold. Whereas with King of the Hill I've grown fond of the characters and following the storylines.

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i am doing a research paper on animation and the contraversy over the violence and behavior in certian cartoons, particularly family guy. my question is are there any articals about...

Get the to your local university college library.

the affect of mature cartoons on children...

Look under Physiology and from there that might lead you to child Physiology. Pay close attention to Periodicals.

the sytem of rateing on these cartoons (PG, TVMA, R)...

This would have to be under media, but you will need to work with the librarian. Stuff about the rateing system is in a lot of different locations and you might wont to look at the trade magazines too.

and why is animation being made for adults and made to appeal to children?

This is my opinion, adult cartoons are made for adults and children cartoons are made for children. It is like saying, why was "Die Hard" or "Doom" made to appeal to children. Cartoons might be thought of as the main media for childrens entertaiment but it is not, it is a media used in childrens entertainment.

Good luck on the paper.

I agree that not everything needs to be family-friendly. There can be cartoons that are for older kids or adults only.

We have ratings systems so families know to keep their kids away from certain materials.

Since the 1920s, there have been cartoons that target more mature audiences and civilization hasn't ended yet. Felix the Cat used to smoke, get drunk (during Prohibition, when it was illegal), and murder people.
The Simpsons and King of the Hill deal with mature topics (death, drugs, drunkenness, sexuality, etc.) and are considered by some too much for kids. Should we remove all the mature topics from The Simpsons in case some five year old accidently watches it?

Asking about the effect of adult cartoons - like South Park (TV-MA) or Drawn Together (TV-MA) or even Akira (R) - on kids is kind of silly. You might as well be asking about the effect of booze or porn on kids. We already know: it's bad for them. Don't let your kids stay up past 10 PM, unattended, and you have nothing to worry about.

Instead of worrying about cartoons, adults need to campaign to keep kids away from that Bible book. That has got to be one of the most violent and ugly books ever (rape, murder, torture, incest, human sacrifice, dismemberment), and millions of parents actually allow their children to read it! Who knows how it's warping the minds of our youth.

i would be glad to help if you have specific queries. personally i dont think animation is meant only for children. Family Guy is a great example of that. i dont think its entirely appropriate for a young audience, in fact much of its humour would be lost on them. same with South Park.

Don't let your kids stay up past 10 PM, unattended, and you have nothing to worry about.

10 PM? The evening news comes on as early as 5 pm in some places, takes a break for a little while for some sitcom syndication and then launches into 3 hours of primetime filled with shows like CSI, Law and Order, and 24, each trying to out-gore, and out pervert the next. The Simpsons, Family Guy, and South Park are all solidly with in that 3 hours of "must not watch" television for kids. Saying they're for kids is just silly.

Not to mention, have the nay-sayers actually sat down and watched Saturday morning television? The Batman is very violent, so is Yu-Gi-Oh and most of those WB shows. And how many commercials are for sugar cereals and Micky D's? What they hammer away at kids to buy and eat is probably far more detrimental to their overall health than any cartoon violence they may see. Nothing like leaving our future to a bunch of really young corporate zombies.

Letting the kids watch television without knowing what they're watching is naive at best, but usually closer to irresponsible. Blaming the shows is absurd. You don't want your kids to watch bad shows, watch it with them or even better, don't turn on the TV. The TV does NOT have children's best interests in mind (PBS possibly being an exception, but even they have corporate sponsors that tack their message on, Juicy Juice for Arthur for instance).

Teach kids to animate and draw instead. Take the kids out side and have them chase each other for a a couple of hours. They'll be too tired to watch TV. There's a whole world of things to do out there that don't involve the boob-tube.

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i think there def needs to be regulation, besides the more time kids spend playing and reading the better. animation on sat and sun for a bit is good. but there is plenty of violence on tv more graphic i would say with the explosions and all which cant be a good thing.

In my opinion, I think that more people have come to accept to letting their kids become exposed to violence. We see it everyday on the T.V,, in the news, children and cartoon shows like Dragonball Z, Totally Spies, Ace Lightning, only to name a few. Today I saw a minor kid, about 10 years old picking up the game FarCry, which is a very violent, realistic shooting game. Kids these days are being exposed too much to violence. And now the television shows are exposing more of the adult and teenage issues like drugs, sex and alcohol. As seen on The Simpsons, SpongeBob Squarepants Movie (where Spongebob is drinking many sundaes or something and making it seem he is drunk),family guy, and drawn together. And the adult cartoons, are shown pretty early. And plus, when the children are going to turn the T.V. on and see anything drawn they will watch it. Television either have to restrict more of the shows, or the parents have to be more strict to their kids for having a sense of curiosity.

If you're gonna have them chase each other maybe the sugar cereals aren't a bad idea...(come to think of it, "sugar cereals" is redundant)

(come to think of it, "sugar cereals" is redundant)

No, cereal is grain: wheat, oats, corn, rice, etc.

Sugar is sucrose extracted from plants like cane or beets or maple trees.

Hell, my kids could watch the most violet animated cartoon ever, and I wouldn't care as long as the animation is GOOD! I don't want them to be raised on bad animation. :D Besides, if I don't let them watch cartoons, that would me I'd have to be watching them, and we can't have that.

I grew up watching Loony Tunes and I grew up ok. Now I have to get back to my "first person shooter" video game with the extra gore pack installed. :P

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Instead of worrying about cartoons, adults need to campaign to keep kids away from that Bible book. That has got to be one of the most violent and ugly books ever (rape, murder, torture, incest, human sacrifice, dismemberment), and millions of parents actually allow their children to read it! Who knows how it's warping the minds of our youth.

LOL. That was great.

I think some people are assuming that ootokeroo's arguing that these shows are bad for kids. So far all he/she's (sorry I don't know your gender) said is that he's writing a paper on the controversy.

I personally feel that cartoons should, can, and are made for both child and adult entertainment. As soon as Americans realize this, we will all be in better positions. I once read an article comparing the costs of Adult Swim's highly rated animated prorams to an equally rated live action show. The difference was amazing. So, it's good for producers to save money, it's good for us animators who like to have work, and I think it's good for our audiences. As said before, look at Japan. I read there are over 30 hours a week of prime time television that are animated. The public interest and funding for animation in Japan has led them to make many innovations and put out a variety of excellent products.

The link I posted earlier is to an opnion article on a video game website and pretty much states that violence among youth is going down according to the U.S. government's own statistics. Incidents like Colombine just make people more aware of youth violence.

Also, someone mentioned the adult oriented themes of early cartoons. I just want to reiterate that animation was originally created to entertain adults. I don't think many children attended McKay's presentations of Gertie. Or any of the lightning sketch or vaudeville shows with optical toys that were the start of animation.

Also, it is recommended that young children watch one hour of tv a day. That means there really shouldn't be any chance of them accidentally watching these "terrible" shows, if parents were doing their jobs, instead of relying on the tv to be a babysitter.

While I'm ranting.... I think it's very sad that an excellent studio like Fox Feature Animation (under Bluth) had to go belly up because a film that was targeted at older audiences (Titan AE) and was quite good IMO wasn't widely attended. I believe that was all because of the stigma that animation is for kids.