Youth, Popular Culture and Moral Panics
Penny Gaffs to Gangsta-Rap, 1830-1996
The international controversy (highlighted in Britain by the Bulger case) over the relationship between video nasties and crime is one that has a long prior history. Do books, films or magazines create a corrupting environment which encourages crime and moral decay?Dr. 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 Industrial Revolution, as a force likely to undermine national morals. There has been wave after wave of scares: from the Victorian penny gaff theatres and penny dreadful novels to Hollywood gangster films, and Amer…
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- ISBN: 978-1-349-27458-1
- EAN: 9781349274581
- Produktnummer: 37748177
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 230 S.
- Plattform: PDF
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JOHN SPRINGHALL is Reader in History at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, UK.
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