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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784507603321

Autore

Gilbert James Burkhart

Titolo

A cycle of outrage : America's reaction to the juvenile delinquent in the 1950s. / / James Gilbert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1986

©1986

ISBN

1-280-76013-3

9786610760138

0-19-802075-9

0-19-536356-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

364.3/6/0973

Soggetti

Juvenile delinquency - United States - Public opinion

Deviant behavior in mass media

Teenagers in mass media

Teenagers - United States - Public opinion

Public opinion - United States

United States Social conditions 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction The Social History of an Idea; 1 A Problem of Behavior; 2 Rehearsal for a Crime Wave; 3 Controlling Public Opinion; 4 The Great Fear; 5 The Lawyers' Dilemma; 6 Crusade Against Mass Culture; 7 The Intellectuals and Mass Culture; 8 Delinquency Theory: From Structure to Subculture; 9 Mass Media and Delinquency: A National Forum; 10 Movies and the Censorship of Mass Culture; 11 Juvenile Delinquency Films; 12 Selling Youth Culture; 13 Postscript; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The youth culture is on everyone's lips today, as pressures build to ban controversial song lyrics, reintroduce school prayer, and prohibit teenagers' access to contraceptives. It's not the first time Americans have been outraged over the ""seuction of the innocent."". When James Dean and Marlon Brando donned their motorcycle jackets and adopted



alienated poses in Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden, and The Wild One, in the 1950's, so did countless numbers of American teenagers. Or so it seemed to their parents. American teenagers were looking and acting like juvenile delinquents. By mid-deca