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Moral panics and the media / Chas Critcher.

By: Critcher, C.
Series: Issues in cultural and media studies.Publisher: Buckingham : Open University Press, 2003Description: xiii, 207 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0335209092 (hbk.).Subject(s): Mass media -- Moral and ethical aspects | Mass media -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 175
Contents:
Series editor's foreword. - List of tables and figure. - Acknowledgements. - Introduction : original thoughts. - Pt. I. The models. 1. Made in Britain : the processual model of moral panics. - 2. Notes from a big country : the attributional model of moral panics. vi. Moral panics and the media. - Pt. II. The case studies. 3. Unhealthy preoccupations : AIDS. - 4. Out of their minds : ecstasy and raves. - 5. A rocky horror show : video nasties. - 6. Suffer the little children : child abuse in families. - 7. Monstrous ideas : Paedophilia. - Pt. III. The implications. 8. Universal pictures : international comparisons. - 9. No news is good news : the role of the media. - 10. Time for a make-over : the models revisited. - viii. Moral panics and the media. 11. Myth appropriation : the childhood theme. - 12. Underwriting risk : moral panics and social theory. - Afterword. - Glossary. - Rerefences. - Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series editor's foreword. - List of tables and figure. - Acknowledgements. - Introduction : original thoughts. - Pt. I. The models. 1. Made in Britain : the processual model of moral panics. - 2. Notes from a big country : the attributional model of moral panics. vi. Moral panics and the media. - Pt. II. The case studies. 3. Unhealthy preoccupations : AIDS. - 4. Out of their minds : ecstasy and raves. - 5. A rocky horror show : video nasties. - 6. Suffer the little children : child abuse in families. - 7. Monstrous ideas : Paedophilia. - Pt. III. The implications. 8. Universal pictures : international comparisons. - 9. No news is good news : the role of the media. - 10. Time for a make-over : the models revisited. - viii. Moral panics and the media. 11. Myth appropriation : the childhood theme. - 12. Underwriting risk : moral panics and social theory. - Afterword. - Glossary. - Rerefences. - Index.