Because of the subject matter and graphic violence of some of De Palma's films, such as Dressed to Kill, Scarface and Body Double, they are often at the center of controversy with the Motion Picture Association of America, film critics and the viewing public.

Its graphic and interactive violence, as well as its Satanic imagery, also made it the subject of considerable controversy.

Because of its graphic violence and terror, the original version of the movie was banned in several countries, including Finland, Germany, Iceland and Ireland.

Alien ( 1979 ) combined the naturalistic acting and graphic violence of the 1970s with the monster movie plots of earlier decades, and used science fiction.

A larger trend is a return to the extreme, graphic violence that characterized much of the type of low-budget, exploitation horror from the post-Vietnam years.

* Splatter film – These films deliberately focus on graphic portrayals of gore and graphic violence.

Eighteen months after their release of Wolfenstein 3D, in 1993 Id Software released Doom which would again set new standards for graphic quality and graphic violence in computer gaming.

Latter-day Saints are counseled not to partake of any form of media that is obscene or pornographic in any way, including media that depicts graphic representations of sex or violence.

The cards sparked parental and community outrage over their graphic violence and implied sexuality.

Although Nintendo of Japan allowed graphic violence in its video games, nudity and sexuality were strictly prohibited.

Nintendo of America and Nintendo of Europe went further in that games released for Nintendo consoles could not feature nudity, sexuality, profanity ( including racism, sexism or slurs ), blood, graphic or domestic violence, drugs, political messages or religious symbols ( with the exception of widely unpracticed religions, such as the Greek Pantheon ).

Horror fiction is the literature of the unnatural and supernatural, with the aim of unsettling or frightening the reader, sometimes with graphic violence.

Many modern shows, however, include a significant amount of adult themes ( such as sexual sitiuations, nudity, profanity and graphic violence ) rendering them unsuitable for young audiences, and severely limiting the remaining audience demographic and the potential for merchandising.

Because of its scenes depicting intensely graphic violence, sadism, and sexual depravity, the movie was extremely controversial upon its release, and remains banned in several countries.

Other than graphic gore, the film contains several scenes of sexual violence and the genuine deaths of 6 animals onscreen and one off screen, issues which find Cannibal Holocaust in the midst of controversy to this day.

He credited the graphic coverage of violence by San Antonio news outlets as one inspiration for the film and based elements of the plot on serial killer Ed Gein in 1950s Wisconsin ; Gein inspired other horror films such as Psycho ( 1960 ) and The Silence of the Lambs ( 1991 ).

In 1975, the X classification ( officially: " pornographic or violence-inciting movies ") was created for pornographic movies, or movies with successions of scenes of graphic violence.

In 2000, some conservative associations sued the government for granting the movie Baise-moi, which contained graphic, realistic scenes of sex and violence, a non-X classification.

The GHOUL engine enables depiction of extreme graphic violence, in which character models are based on body parts that can each independently sustain damage ( gore zones ).

Soldier of Fortune was praised as being a solid and entertaining shooter, with one of the game's greatest praises being its graphic depiction of gore and violence, which both proponents and detractors consider to be more realistic than most first-person shooter games.

Although it was extremely popular in its day, it fell out of favour during the Victorian era, primarily because of what was considered to be a distasteful use of graphic violence, but from around the middle of the twentieth century its reputation began to improve.

It was originally rated NC-17 for its brutal and graphic violence.

A student organization, Bottega, is open to any student interested in increasing his understanding and appreciation of the graphic and ceramic arts in their historical, technical, and productive contexts.

The space character is considered a non-printing graphic.

ASCII includes definitions for 128 characters: 33 are non-printing control characters ( many now obsolete ) that affect how text and space is processed and 95 printable characters, including the space ( which is considered an invisible graphic ).

Devanagari is typically an abugida augmented with dedicated letters for initial vowels, though some traditions use अ as a zero consonant as the graphic base for such vowels.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

In later Pahlavi papyri, up to half of the remaining graphic distinctions of these twelve letters were lost, and the script could no longer be read as a sequence of letters at all, but instead each word had to be learned as a whole — that is, they had become logograms as in Egyptian Demotic.

The Mughal Emperor Farrukhsiyar a grandson of Aurangzeb, is also known to have sent a letter to the Ottomans bu this time it was received by the Grand Vizier Nevşehirli Damad Ibrahim Pasha providing a graphic description of the informing him of the efforts of the Mughal commander Syed Hassan Ali Khan Barha against the Rajput and Maratha rebellion.

ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable ( from a total of 128 ) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters ( beyond the 128 characters of standard 7-bit ASCII

This is corroborated by Benedict of Peterborough's graphic account of Greece, as it was in 1191, where he states that many of the islands were uninhabited from fear of pirates and that Aegina, along with Salamis and Makronesos, were their strongholds.

The graphic quality is similar to that of the Intellivision and the Odyssey².

Although the description sitting-on ( graph 1 ) is more abstract than the graphic image of a cat sitting on a mat ( picture 1 ), the delineation of abstract things from concrete things is somewhat ambiguous ; this ambiguity or vagueness is characteristic of abstraction.

The graphic scheme above is an artist's concept illustrating the expansion of a portion of a flat universe.

* The present-time scene where Batman / Bruce is cornered by Detective Bullock's SWAT Team adheres to a similar setting from the graphic novel as mentioned above ( the abandoned tenement fire from issue # 3 ).

This is taken from the final act of the graphic novel when Batman does the same thing at the abandoned tenement fire.

In some cases the direct construction of an object ( as in pottery, engineering, management, cowboy coding and graphic design ) is also considered as design.

One example is the First Things First manifesto which was launched within the graphic design community and states " We propose a reversal of priorities in favor of more useful, lasting and democratic forms of communication – a mindshift away from product marketing and toward the exploration and production of a new kind of meaning.

In graphic arts ( 2D image making that ranges from photography to illustration ) the distinction is often made between fine art and commercial art, based on the context within which the work is produced and how it is traded.

Caricature is a kind of graphic entertainment, the purpose of which may vary from merely putting a smile on the viewer's face, to raising social awareness, to highlighting the moral characteristics of a person being caricatured.

Pornography's objective is the graphic depiction of sexually explicit scenes.

The following is a graphic representation of its scansion.