Title Evil influences : crusades against the mass media / Steven Starker.

Publication Info.	New Brunswick, U.S.A. : Transaction Publishers, [1989]
	©1989

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	P92.U5 S645 1989	Available	---

Description	vi, 212 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents	I. Introduction and background. 1. Threats to mind, morality, and society -- 2. Writing, printing, and thinking. II. Resposne to innovation. 3. Pressure on the press : journalism -- 4. Fear of fiction : the novel -- 5. Infamous images : the comics -- 6. The Sin in cinema : movies -- 7. Radio activity and its fallout : radio -- 8. The Vast wasteland : television -- 9. Invaders of the eighties : recent trends. III. Social and psychological perspectives. 10. Masscult menace : popular culture -- 11. Moral crusades : the psychology of fear.
Subject	Mass media -- United States.
	Mass media.
	United States.
	Mass media -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Mass media -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Popular culture -- United States.
	Popular culture.
Other Form:	Online version: Starker, Steven, 1942- Evil influences. New Brunswick, U.S.A. : Transaction Publishers, ©1989 (OCoLC)598387431
ISBN	0887382754
	9780887382758
	9781412845854
	1412845858