| Description |
325 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Child's play: Beyond Moral Panics -- 3. Emotions and 'effects': Reading Children's and Parents' Talk -- 4. Distress and delight: Children's Experience of Horror -- 5. Having a good cry: The Ambiguous Pleasures of Melodrama -- 6. Facing facts: The Emotional Politics of News -- 7. Feels so real: On the Boundaries Between Fact and Fiction -- 8. Screening responses: Control and Regulation in the Home -- 9. Conclusion |
| Summary |
In this book, one of Britain's leading television researchers investigates children's own perspectives on what they find frightening, moving or upsetting. Buckingham looks at how children learn to cope with their feelings on such material |
| Analysis |
Television and children -- Psychological aspects |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-325) |
| Subject |
Television and children -- Psychological aspects.
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| LC no. |
95030874 |
| ISBN |
0719045959 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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0719045967 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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