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1 online resource (xvii, 289 pages) : illustrations |
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monochrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Moral Panics in the Contemporary World: Enduring Controversies and Future Directions / Amanda Rohloff, Jason Hughes, Julian Petley and Chas Critcher -- Rethinking Moral Panics. The Cautionary Tale: A New Paradigm for Studying Media Coverage of Crime / Sarah E.H. Moore -- The Journalist, Folk Devil / Paul Lashmar -- "Are we insane"? the "video nasty" moral panic / Julian Petley -- Lifestyle, Risk and Health. Theorizing Alcohol in Public Discourse: Moral Panics or Moral Regulation? / Henry Yeomans -- Moral Panics, Governmentality and the Media: A Comparative Approach to the Analysis of Illegal Drug Use in the News / Jeremy Collins -- "He Who Buries the Little Girl Wins!" Moral Panics as Double Jeopardy: The Case of Rule of Rose / Elisabeth Staksrud and Jørgen Kirksæther -- Crime and Deviance. From Media Hypes to Moral Panics: Theoretical and Methodological Tools / Marcello Maneri -- Moral Panic and Ritual Abuse: Where'sthe Risk? Findings of an Ethnographic Research Study / Morena Tartari -- The "chav" as Folk Devil / Elias Le Grand -- Immigration, War and Terror. Moral Panic around the Burqa in France: an Eliasian Perspective / Aurelie Lacassagne -- Elite Power and the Manufacture of a Moral Panic: The Case of the Dirty War in Argentina / John Oplinger, Richard Talbot and Yasin Aktay. |
| Summary |
Moral Panics in the Contemporary World represents the best current theoretical and empirical work on the topic, taken from the international conference on moral panics held at Brunel University. The range of contributors, from established scholars to emerging ones in the field, and from a working journalist as well, helps to cover a wide range of moral panics, both old and new, and extend the geographical scope of moral panic analysis to previously underrepresented areas. Designed from the outset to comprise a coherent and integrated set of viewpoints which share a common engagement with criti. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Moral panics.
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Moral panics. |
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Mass media -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Mass media -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Mass media and public opinion.
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Mass media and public opinion. |
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Mass media and crime.
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Mass media and crime. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Critcher, C., editor.
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Hughes, Jason, editor.
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Petley, Julian, editor.
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Rohloff, Amanda, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Moral panics in the contemporary world. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013 9781623568931 (DLC) 2013000252 (OCoLC)828682411 |
| ISBN |
9781623562090 |
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1623562090 |
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9781628928204 (online) |
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1628928204 (online) |
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9781623568931 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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1623568935 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9781623564056 (e-pub) |
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