“It looks kind of cool when cool people smoke, but…” Norwegian adolescents’ decoding of smoking scenes in films:

[摘要] Aims:Exposure to smoking scenes in films is seen as contributing to smoking initiation among young people. This has triggered calls to include depictions of smoking as a criterion in film ratings. All the same time, little is known about how adolescents interpret different smoking scenes. This study analyses how young people decode smoking scenes by contextualising identification with, and evaluation of, various characters who smoke, as well as the significance of film genres.Design:In order to explore how adolescents conceptualize smoking scenes in different film genres, we conducted eight focus-group interviews with adolescents aged 13–17 years (n = 54), using purposive sampling. The discussions were semi-structured with a standard guide, and we used clips from eight films containing various positive and negative moods and character types as stimuli for the discussions. To analyse interpretations qualitatively, thematic coding was applied.Results:The adolescents acknowledged that smoking is a narrative ...

[学科分类] 生物化学/生物物理

[关键词] adolescents;film smoking;media power;model learning;movies;reception analysis