Moral Panics, Social Fears, and the Media

Siân Nicholas is a Senior Lecturer in British History at Aberystwyth University and Co-Director of the Aberystwyth Centre for Media History, UK. Tom O’Malley is Professor of Media in the Department of Theatre Film and Television at Aberystwyth University, UK.

Foreword Introduction Part I: Approaches to the Media, Moral Panics and Social Fears 1. Model Answers: Moral Panics and Media History 2. Moral Panics, Emotion and Newspaper History 3. The Wertham Case: Evaluating Effects on Media Theories Part II: The media as an object of fear 4. ‘I Will Answer You, My Friend, but I am Afraid’: Telephones and the Fear of a New Medium in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Italy 5. The Dreadful World of Edwardian Wireless 6. Cinema, Social Fears and Moral Panics in Britain’s Tropical Empire 7. The Response to Television in the UK 1947-77: A Study in the Media and Social Fear Part III: Panics, fear and the media 8. Unmarried: Unmarried Motherhood in Post-First World War British Film 9. Watching the Detectives (and the Constables): Fearing the Police in 1920s Britain 10. Fifth Columnists, Collaborators and Black Marketeers: Fearing the ‘Enemy Within’ in the Wartime British Media 11. Citizenship, Sexual Anxiety and Womanhood in Second World War Britain: the Case of the Man with the Cleft Chin 12. ‘Enemy Television’: Fear as a Motive Force in East German Television Programming 13. ‘The Ugly Tide of Today’s Teenage Violence’: Revisiting the Clockwork Orange Controversy in the UK