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	Topics Carnography Topic Home Carnography (from Latin "carnis" meaning "meat" and Greek ??af? (grafi) "writing") is a neologismNeologism A neologism is a word, term, or phrase which has been recently created — often to apply to new concepts, or to reshape... for writing, films, images, or other material that contains gratuitous amounts of bloodBlood Blood is a highly specialised circulating tissue consisting of several types of cell suspended in a fluid medium known as pl... shed, violenceViolence Violence refers to acts of aggression and abuse which causes or intends to cause criminal injury or harm to persons, and an... and/or weaponry. It is named by analogy to pornographyPornography Pornography, more informally referred to as porn or porno, is the representation of the human body or sexual act... (although it is often mistaken for a portmanteauPortmanteau A portmanteau is a term in linguistics that refers to a word or morpheme that fuses two or more grammatical functions.... of "carnage" and "pornography", this is not strictly the case), and is sometimes referred to as "violence porn". The mere depiction of violent acts, or of their results, does not necessarily qualify a film as carnography, just as the mere depiction of sex acts does not necessarily qualify a film as pornography. See also Splatter filmSplatter film A splatter film or gore film is a type of horror film that deliberately concentrates on portrayals of gore and violenc... External links (from the LINGUIST ListLinguist List Linguist List is an important linguistics resource that provides information on language and language analysis.... )