Moving images : understanding children's emotional responses to television
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Moving images : understanding children's emotional responses to television
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St Martin's Press, 1996
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [319]-325
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780719045950
Description
Concerns about the effects of television on young children are a recurrent focus of public controversy. Yet amid all the anxiety, children's voices are rarely heard. In this book, one of Britain's leading television researchers investigates children's own perspectives on what they find frightening, moving and upsetting. From "Nightmare on Elm Street" to "My Girl", from "The Colour Purple" to "The News at Ten", what children find upsetting is often difficult to predict. David Blackburn gives a detailed insight into children's responses to horror films, to "weepies" and soap operas, to news and to "reality programmes". He looks at how they learn to cope with their feelings about such material, and how their parents help or hinder them in doing so. This study offers a new approach to studying the role of television in children's lives, and should be of interest to parents and teachers, as well as policy makers and educationalists.
Table of Contents
- Child's play? - beyond moral panics
- emotions and "effects" - reading children's and parent's talk
- distress and delight - children's experience of horror
- having a good cry - the ambiguous pleasures of melodrama
- facing facts - the emotional politics of news
- feels so real - on the boundaries between fact and fiction
- screening responses - control and regulation in the home
- conclusion.
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: pbk ISBN 9780719045967
Description
Concerns about the effects of television on young children are a recurrent focus of public controversy. Yet amid all the anxiety, children's voices are rarely heard. In this book, one of Britain's leading television researchers investigates children's own perspectives on what they find frightening, moving and upsetting. From "Nightmare on Elm Street" to "My Girl", from "The Colour Purple" to "The News at Ten", what children find upsetting is often difficult to predict. David Blackburn gives a detailed insight into children's responses to horror films, to "weepies" and soap operas, to news and to "reality programmes". He looks at how they learn to cope with their feelings about such material, and how their parents help or hinder them in doing so. This study offers a new approach to studying the role of television in children's lives, and should be of interest to parents and teachers, as well as policy makers and educationalists. -- .
Table of Contents
- Child's play? - beyond moral panics
- emotions and "effects" - reading children's and parent's talk
- distress and delight - children's experience of horror
- having a good cry - the ambiguous pleasures of melodrama
- facing facts - the emotional politics of news
- feels so real - on the boundaries between fact and fiction
- screening responses - control and regulation in the home
- conclusion.
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