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Springhall, John. Youth, Popular Culture, and Moral Panics: Penny Gaffs to Gangsta-Rap, 1830-1996. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. 218 pp. ISBN 0312213948 (cloth), 0312213956 (pb).

    Acknowledgements ... vii

    Introduction ... 1
  1. Penny Theatre Panic: Anxiety over Juvenile Working-class Leisure ... 11
  2. 'Penny Dreadful' Panic (I): Their readers, Publishing, and Content ... 38
  3. 'Penny Dreadful' Panic (II): Their Scapegoating for Late-Victorian Juvenile Crime ... 71
  4. Gangster film Panic: Censoring Hollywood in the 1930s ... 98
  5. 'Horror Comic' Panic: Campaigning against Comic Books in the 1940s and 1950s ... 121
  6. Mass Media Panic: The 1980s and 1990s ... 147

  7. Conclusions ... 156

    Appendix I  Jack Sheppard in Victorian Popular Culture ... 163
    Appendix II  American Dime and Half-Dime Novels ... 169
    Appendix III  Hank Janson Paperbacks of the 1950s ... 173
    Notes ... 176
    Bibliography ... 196
    Index ... 209



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