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The Myth of Harm Horror, Censorship and the Child.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Cleary, Sarah
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2022.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • The myth of harm: An introduction
  • Introduction
  • Book outline
  • Defining horror
  • Towards a definition of the child
  • Infantilisation of adults
  • Myth as narrative
  • Myth as Gothic
  • Negative effects
  • Positive effects
  • Harm(less) definition
  • What's the harm?
  • Chapter 1: The golden age of Hollywood horror
  • Introduction
  • The origins of horror film controversy
  • Formation of the Production Code
  • The 'golden age' of Hollywood horror
  • Gothic eugenics
  • The Payne Fund Studies
  • The myth of Movie Made Children
  • The 'new' Production Code
  • The British 'ban' on horror films
  • The decline of the 1930s horror film
  • Chapter 2: The horror comics controversy
  • Introduction
  • Comic books as Gothic texts
  • From dime novels to comics books
  • Early comic book criticism
  • The 'threat' of juvenile delinquency
  • The other 'Other'
  • Formation of the Comic Code
  • From crime to horror
  • Home is where the heartache is
  • Seducing the innocent
  • Horror comic communism
  • The hearings: An introduction
  • The Taste Trap
  • British ban on horror comics
  • The decline of the horror comic
  • Chapter 3: The video nasty controversy in the UK
  • Introduction
  • Nasty Gothic
  • Background to the video nasty campaign
  • The 'Powerhouse' that was Mary Whitehouse
  • 'New Horror': A prelude to video nasties
  • VHS nasties hit British shelves
  • Nasty scene setting
  • Nasty campaigns
  • 'The Video Violence and Children Report'
  • Common-sense censorship
  • 'Killing of Innocence'
  • Chapter 4: Gothic video games and 'murder simulators'
  • Introduction
  • New technologies
  • old fears
  • same myth
  • Racing towards death
  • Body and soul
  • 1993 congressional hearings
  • Doom and gloom
  • Video games as Gothic texts
  • Addicted, desensitised and depraved
  • 'We've got to quit fooling around with this'
  • Bad science good headlines
  • Chapter 5: The slender man stabbing case study
  • Introduction
  • Cybergothic
  • The myth that became a man
  • He's behind you
  • Conclusion
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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