Are animated films getting more violent?
There are large differences in the amount of violence in the films. The total amount of violence for individual films ranges from 6 seconds (My Neighbor Totoro) to 24 minutes (Quest for Camelot), with an average of 9.5 minutes of violence per film. We found a statistically significant increase in the amount of violence in films over time. This relationship implies that on average a film released in the early 1940’s had 6 minutes of violence while a film released in the late 1990’s had an average of 11 minutes of violence.
