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Moral panics and the media / Chas Critcher.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Issues in cultural and media studiesPublication details: Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 2003.Description: xiii, 207 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0335209084 (PB)
  • 0335209092 (HB)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 175 21
Contents:
CONTENTS: Series editor's foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: original thoughts -- Part one: the models - Made in Britain: the processual model of moral panics -- Notes from a big country: the attributional model of moral panics -- Part two: case studies - Unhealthy preoccupations: AIDS -- Out of their minds: ecstasy and raves -- A rocky horror show: video nasties -- Suffer the little children: child abuse in families -- Monstrous ideas: paedophilia -- Part three: implications -- Universal pictures: international comparisons -- No news is good news: the role of the media -- Time for a make- over: the models revisited -- Myth appropriation: the childhood theme -- Underwriting risk: moral panics and social theory -- Afterword - Glossary - References - Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-198) and index.

CONTENTS: Series editor's foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: original thoughts -- Part one: the models - Made in Britain: the processual model of moral panics -- Notes from a big country: the attributional model of moral panics -- Part two: case studies - Unhealthy preoccupations: AIDS -- Out of their minds: ecstasy and raves -- A rocky horror show: video nasties -- Suffer the little children: child abuse in families -- Monstrous ideas: paedophilia -- Part three: implications -- Universal pictures: international comparisons -- No news is good news: the role of the media -- Time for a make- over: the models revisited -- Myth appropriation: the childhood theme -- Underwriting risk: moral panics and social theory -- Afterword - Glossary - References - Index.

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