ABSTRACT
"Confessional" talk-shows present the other symbolic "nodal point" for the articulation of violence. Violence remains largely a heterosexual male problem that is intimately tied up with sexual politics, the division of labor, and the social organization of sexuality and attraction. Symbolic violence is an incarnation of unequal social relations, an indicator of the hegemonic struggle that is in process. In Canada, a new anti-violence code has been put in place, with Canadian radio-television and telecommunications commission Chairman Keith Spicer also thinking about endorsing the V-chip, making parents instant censors. The continual "cultural wars" between "generation X" and New Right "baby boomers" around the issue of violence as represented in the popular cultural forms of film and television provide critically concerned art educators with an opportune moment to examine how conservative rhetoric has made "moral panic" an object of discourses.
