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This article profiles the violence that occurs in the films that compose the most popular (topgrossing) genres of 1994: comedy, drama, and action. The critical features used to describe film violence are intentionality, frequency, seriousness, consequences, explicitness, and severity (damage to the body of the recipient). Scales for seriousness, explicitness, and severity were systematically applied to the films using frame-by-frame analysis. Although the initiators of violence in American films employ lethal violence in nearly half the violent events, depiction of any consequences to the recipient's body occurs in 1 out of 10 cases. Throughout, the effects of violence on the victim's body are mystified by a form of narrative that occults and minimizes consequences arising from clearly depicted intentional assaults. So far as violence is concerned, the Hollywood body is an impossible one, merely a dramaturgical figure.

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Outdoor, field-based team sports have been a staple of American and international cultures throughout recorded history and are currently played by millions of athletes around the globe. In modern competition, it is critical for athletes and support staff such as coaches, strength and conditioning specialists, and medical personnel to cooperate to optimize competitive readiness and performance. Important variables that can enhance or reduce physiological adaptations related to these areas include the relationship between the prescribed training workload and potential injuries. Therefore, it is important to understand and modify these aspects to fit the unique needs of individual athletes and specific teams. Recent advancements in technology now allow aspects of performance to be monitored in real time via methods that are reliable, cost effective, and noninvasive. The purpose of this literature review is to summarize and elucidate the available information on the potential relationship between heart rate monitoring and training load and how it may be used to prevent, predict, or detect an injury among athletes who participate in field-based sports. Overall, results indicate that while such technology has been used to describe and prescribe training workload, little research has been done to monitor the relationship between these variables and proclivity for or recovery from injury. Future longitudinal studies that encapsulate and address the highly dynamic nature and relationship of these variables are needed to better understand how they interact. Such an understanding may allow personnel such as coaches and staff to better support athletes on and off the field.