This book analyses articles that appeared in popular periodicals from the 1920s to the present, each revealing the panic that parents and adults have expressed about media including radio, television, video games and the Internet for the last century. Karen Leick argues that parents have continuously shown an intense anxiety about new media, while expressing a romanticized nostalgia for their own youth. Recurring tropes describe concerns about each addictive new media: children do not play outside anymore, lack imagination, and may imitate violent or other inappropriate content that they encounter.
Chapter One: Introduction.- Chapter Two: Movies and Radio.- Chapter Three: Comic Books.- Chapter Four: Television.- Chapter Five: Video Games.- Chapter Six: The Internet, Screens and Smartphones.- Index
Karen Leick is Lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. She is the author of
Gertrude Stein and the Making of an American Celebrity (2009), and co-editor of
Modernism on File: Writers, Artists and the FBI, 1920-1950 (Palgrave, 2008). She has also published many articles about the reception of modernism.
This book analyses articles that appeared in popular periodicals from the 1920s to the present, each revealing the panic that parents and adults have expressed about media including radio, television, video games and the Internet for the last century. Karen Leick argues that parents have continuously shown an intense anxiety about new media, while expressing a romanticized nostalgia for their own youth. Recurring tropes describe concerns about each addictive new media: children do not play outside anymore, lack imagination, and may imitate violent or other inappropriate content that they encounter.
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