Youth, popular culture and moral panics
Subtitle: penny gaffs to gangsta-rap, 1830-1996
By: John Springhall.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Basingstoke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Popular culture.; Juvenile delinquency.; Mass media and youth -- Social aspects.; Popular literature -- Social aspects.
Description: The international controversy over the relationship between video nasties and crime is one that has a long prior history. Dr Springhall has written a highly perceptive and entertaining account of how commercial culture has been viewed.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.