Parents, Media and Panic through the Years
Kids Those Days
Authors: Leick, Karen
Free Preview- Explores the historical context of discussions concerning parenting, popular culture and technology in the twentieth and twenty-first century
- Demonstrates the continuity in behaviour of young people over time, as well as the responses to it
- Examines social anxieties about new media since the 1920s, including radio, television, video games and the internet
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- About this book
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This book analyses articles that appeared in popular periodicals from the 1920s to the present, each revealing the panic that parents and adults have expressed about media including radio, television, video games and the Internet for the last century. Karen Leick argues that parents have continuously shown an intense anxiety about new media, while expressing a romanticized nostalgia for their own youth. Recurring tropes describe concerns about each "addictive" new media: children do not play outside anymore, lack imagination, and may imitate violent or other inappropriate content that they encounter.
- About the authors
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Karen Leick is Lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. She is the author ofGertrude Stein and the Making of an American Celebrity (2009), and co-editor of Modernism on File: Writers, Artists and the FBI, 1920-1950 (Palgrave, 2008). She has also published many articles about the reception of modernism.
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Introduction: Childhood and Nostalgia
Pages 1-12
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Movies and Radio
Pages 13-28
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Comics
Pages 29-39
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Television
Pages 41-65
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Video Games
Pages 67-93
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Parents, Media and Panic through the Years
- Book Subtitle
- Kids Those Days
- Authors
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- Karen Leick
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-98319-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-98319-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-98318-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VII, 134
- Topics
