Youth, popular culture and moral panics : penny gaffs to gangsta-rap, 1830-1996 / John Springhall
- Bib ID:
- 1387460
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Springhall, John
- Description:
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- Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1998
- ix, 218 p. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 033366082X (paperback)
- 0333660838
- Summary:
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John Springhall has written a highly perceptive and entertaining account of how commercial culture in Britain and America has been viewed, since its inception during the process of industrialization, as a force likely to undermine juvenile morals. There has been wave after wave of scares: from Victorian penny 'gaff' theatres and 'penny dreadful' novels to Hollywood gangster films and American 'horror comics'. A final chapter refers to 'video nasties', violence on television, 'gangsta-rap' and computer games, each in turn playing the role of 'folk devils' which must be causing delinquency. Why particular issues suddenly galvanize public attention, and why so many people have associated delinquency with the 'effects' of 'sensational' entertainment, form the fascinating subjects of this book.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Penny Theatre Panic: Anxiety over Juvenile Working-class Leisure
- 2. 'Penny Dreadful' Panic (I): Their Readers, Publishing and Content
- 3. 'Penny Dreadful' Panic (II): Their Scapegoating for Late-Victorian Juvenile Crime
- 4. Gangster Film Panic: Censoring Hollywood in the 1930s
- 5. 'Horror Comic' Panic: Campaigning against Comic Books in the 1940s and 1950s
- 6. Mass Media Panic: The 1980s and 1990s
- App. I. Jack Sheppard in Victorian Popular Culture
- App. II. American Dime and Half-Dime Novels
- App. III. Hank Janson Paperbacks of the 1950s.
- Notes:
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- Bibliography: p.196-208.- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references.
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