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- A superb means for students to understand how popular culture and official culture relate to one another Invaluable for those wishing to look at the underside of British and American mass culture
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About this book
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 American horror comics. A final chapter refers to video nasties, violence on television, 'gansta-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 entertainment, form the fascinating subjects of this groundbreaking book.
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 American horror comics. A final chapter refers to video nasties, violence on television, 'gansta-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 entertainment, form the fascinating subjects of this groundbreaking book.
Authors and Affiliations
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JOHN SPRINGHALL is Reader in History at the University of Ulster, Coleraine.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Youth, Popular Culture and Moral Panics
Book Subtitle: Penny Gaffs to Gangsta-Rap, 1830–1996
Authors: John Springhall
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27458-1
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: John Springhall 1998
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 230
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Social History