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Using Original Research, This Book Explores The Recurring Debates In Britain And America About Children And How They Use And Respond To The Media, Focusing On A Key Example: The Controversy Surrounding Children And Cinema In The 1930s. It Explores The Attempts To Control Children's Viewing, The Theories That Supported These Approaches And The Extent To Which They Were Successful. The Author Develops Her Challenging Proposition That Children Are Agents In Their Cinema Viewing, Not Victims; Showing How These Angels With Dirty Faces Colonized The Cinema. She Reveals Their Distinct Cinema Culture And The Ways In Which They Subverted Or Circumvented Official Censorship Including The Hays Code And The British Board Of Film Censors, To Regulate Their Own Viewing Of A Variety Of Films, Including Frankenstein, King Kong And The Cat And The Canary--provided By Publisher. The Doom Of A Generation? -- How Bridget Served The Salad Undressed: The Regulation Of Cinema 1895-1929 -- It Ain't No Sin: The Regulation Of Cinema 1929-1939 -- Moral Panic Or Flapdoodle? -- Children As Censors -- Matinees, Clubs And Children's Cinema Culture -- Children And Cinema: Control And Resistance -- Appendix I: T.p

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Author

Smith, Sarah Jane

Publisher

Distributed in the US by Palgrave Macmillan, I.B. Tauris

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9786000008260

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Literary Fiction