Overview
- Focuses on the accusations of satanic ritual abuse in America’s white middle-class suburban daycare centers
- Examines the influential relationship between the satanic panic, conservative politics, and the mass media
- Argues that the panic fuelled the expansion of both tabloid media and conservative ideology
Part of the book series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic (PHSWM)
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Book Title: American Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970-2000
Authors: Sarah A. Hughes
Series Title: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83636-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83635-1Published: 28 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83638-2Published: 29 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83636-8Published: 27 October 2021
Series ISSN: 2731-5630
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5649
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 271
Topics: History of the Americas, Modern History, Cultural History, Social History