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Andrea Torres
English 113B

Professor Lawson

17 April 2017

Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography

Charlesworth, Annemarie, and Stanton Glantz. "Smoking in the Movies Increases Adolescent
Smoking:
A Review." Pediatrics, 116.6 (2005): 1516-1528. This source shows a certain study made

on nonsmoking 9th graders to show that portrayal of smoking can influence an individual

to initiate smoking. The 9th graders were split in two different groups. One group viewed

scenes of a young adult oriented movie containing smoking content and the other group

viewed the same movie scenes that were carefully edited removing the smoking scenes.

92 percent of the teens recalled seeing the smoking. This concluded that adolescents

ability to recall underage products has the best recall rates and highest recall rates for

underage products. I will be using the study to show how smoking scenes provokes

significantly more positive arousal and positively beliefs about how a smoker perceives

their own stature. It suggests that smoking in movies gives off feelings of excitement and

pleasure while weakening viewer's perception that smoking is socially objectionable. I

found this source using the CSUN library database and found it to be credible because it

is scholarly journal.
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Grube, Joel W. "Alcohol in the Media: Drinking Portrayals, Alcohol Advertising, and Alcohol

Consumption Among Youth." NCBI. National Research Council (US) and Institute of

Medicine (US) Committee on Developing a Strategy to Reduce and Prevent Underage

Drinking; Bonnie RJ, O'Connell ME. National Academies Press (US), 2004. Web. 12 Apr.

2017. I will be using these two quotes from this article to show that most movies made

contain scenes with references supporting alcohol use and more than half of the movies

show no negative consequence, only desirable good outcomes. It depicts that alcohol can

be consumed whenever without consequences when in reality it can be harmful but most

movies don't show that. I found this source on google using the search words drug

portrayals in movies influences young adults and decided to take a look because NIH is a

credible source.

"Movies Influence Teen Alcohol Consumption More than Parents, Study Finds." Fox News

Health. Newscore, 21 February 2012. Web. 16 April 2017. This article shows a

longitudinal study that will be useful for showing evidence of my claim when including

the counterargument. The study accounts the cofounding variables that my audience might

think of when asking that there may be other reasons why people may start substance use.

The study was made through a phone call survey with 10 to 14 year olds who were then

surveyed again two years later. They were asked what movies they watched and if they had

merchandise with liquor brands on it. They also asked about their personality, school and

home life. Those are the extraneous variable they took into account. Researchers would

determine the amount of exposure of alcohol in the movies they watched. After taking the

cofounding variables into account, researchers concluded that those that watched the most
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movies involving alcohol were twice more likely to initiate drinking. I found this source to

be credible because the information was on fox news.

Stern, Susannah and Lindsey Morr. "Portrayals of Teen Smoking, Drinking, and Drug Use in

Recent Popular Movies." Journal of Health Communication, vol. 18, no. 2, Feb. 2013, pp.

179-191. EBSCOhost. Web. 12 Apr. 2017. A part of the article explains how several

studies show that movies play a big part in influencing young adults to use drugs. Teenagers

behaviors and attitudes toward substance abuse are influenced by environmental factors.

The more a young adult was exposed to smoking in movies, the more likely they would

initiate smoking and as they get older the more desire they would have to experience new

drugs. "Scholars have shown that people learn best and most from those with whom they

identify, and that perceived similarity can be a core component of identifying with others."

I will be using this quote to show that a character that is the same age as the viewer can be

an influential person to them. When a character is shown using drugs, the viewers will

develop expectations on how drugs should be used and that there will be a good outcome

of it, disregarding the negative consequences it can lead to. I found this source on the CSUN

database and decided to choose this one because it is more recent that the other articles I

saw and it is a peer-reviewed journal. It also shows other several studies that were done to

prove my point.