Okiem kamery — semiologia obrazów przemocy

The article contains an attempt to analyse the phenomenon of visual violence (iconic) distributed by mass media, like photography, the cinema, television documentaries and news and the Internet. The authors attempt to demonstrate the characteristics of ths type of violence, referring to specific examples, which are interpreted according to the concepts of George Gerbner, Erich Fromm, Susan Sontag, Jean Baudrillard and others. The contemporary iconosphere encourages the practice of the mechanical approach to looking at violence, separating it from ethical reflections, which is why the question of screen violence, on the consequences of rapid but superficial information, seems still worth posing.