Youth, popular culture and moral panics : penny gaffs to gangsta-rap, 1830-1996 / John Springhall.
Youth, popular culture and moral panics : penny gaffs to gangsta-rap, 1830-1996 / John Springhall.
Youth, popular culture and moral panics : penny gaffs to gangsta-rap, 1830-1996 / John Springhall.
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New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.
Date
1998.
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N306.0973/60
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English
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ix, 218 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. Penny Theatre Panic: Anxiety over Juvenile Working-class Leisure -- 2. 'Penny Dreadful' Panic (I): Their Readers, Publishing and Content -- 3. 'Penny Dreadful' Panic (II): Their Scapegoating for Late-Victorian Juvenile Crime -- 4. Gangster Film Panic: Censoring Hollywood in the 1930s -- 5. 'Horro...
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New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
1998.
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Summary
John 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 process of industrialization, as a force likely to undermine juvenile morals. There has been wave after wave of scares: from Victorian penny 'gaff' theatres and 'penny dreadful' no...
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Youth, popular culture and moral panics : penny gaffs to gangsta-rap, 1830-1996 / John Springhall.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N306.0973/60
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74VvWXwQB6ab
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0312213948 (St. Martin's)
9780312213947
0312213948
9780312213954 (pbk.)
0312213956 (pbk.)
9780333660836 (pbk. : Macmillan)
0333660838 (pbk. : Macmillan)
033366082X (hbk. : Macmillan)
9780312213947 (hbk. : St. Martin's Press)
0312213948 (hbk. : St. Martin's Press)
9780312213954 (pbk. : St. Martin's Press)
0312213956 (pbk. : St. Martin's Press)
9780312213947 (St. Martin's)...
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306.0973
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991011981069702626
