Moral panics and the media / Chas Critcher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Critcher, C.

Series:

Issues in cultural and media studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Moral and ethical aspects.

Mass media.

Mass media--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xiii, 207 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 2003.

Contents:

Part I The Models 7

1 Made in Britain: The Processual Model of Moral Panics 9

Cohen: Folk Devils and Moral Panics 10

Hall et al.: Policing the Crisis 14

Eliciting a model 16

2 Notes from a Big Country: The Attributional Model of Moral Panics 20

Claims making and the mass media 22

Goode and Ben-Yehuda: Moral Panics 23

Jenkins: Intimate Enemies 26

Two models, one project 27

3 Unhealthy Preoccupations: AIDS 33

4 Out of Their Minds: Ecstasy and Raves 48

5 A Rocky Horror Show: Video Nasties 64

The first video nasties narrative, 1982-84 64

The second video nasties narrative, 1993-94 67

6 Suffer the Little Children: Child Abuse in Families 81

Physical abuse as moral panic 83

Cleveland as moral panic 87

Ritual abuse as moral panic 90

7 Monstrous Ideas: Paedophilia 99

Applying the models 109

Beyond moral panics 112

International comparisons 115

Part III The Implications 119

8 Universal Pictures: International Comparisons 121

Political, economic and social change 122

Key institutions 124

Specificity of issues 126

Diffusion 127

Moral panics and modernity 129

9 No News Is Good News: The Role of the Media 131

News values and inferential structures 132

Primary definers and claims makers 134

Agenda setting and public opinion 136

News attention cycle and narrative closure 139

The Daily Mail 141

10 Time for A Make-Over: The Models Revisited 143

Dynamics 144

Determinism 145

Social anxiety 147

Change 148

Critical overview 149

Towards a synthesis 149

11 Myth Appropriation: The Childhood Theme 155

Childhood and moral panics 156

Childhood as social construction 156

Childhood as symbol 158

Childhood and change 159

The politics of childhood 160

12 Underwriting Risk: Moral Panics and Social Theory 164

Moral panics and risk discourses 172.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-198) and index.

ISBN:

0335209092

0335209084

OCLC:

50064721