American tabloid media and the satanic panic, 1970-2000 / Sarah A. Hughes.
Hughes, Sarah A. (Sarah Alison), author.
2021
BF1548 .H84 2021
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Title American tabloid media and the satanic panic, 1970-2000 / Sarah A. Hughes.
Author Hughes, Sarah A. (Sarah Alison), author.
ISBN 9783030836368 (electronic bk.)
3030836363 (electronic bk.)
9783030836351
3030836355
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83636-8
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2011
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-83636-8 doi
Call Number BF1548 .H84 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 070.449133422097309045
Summary This book examines the "satanic panic" of the 1980s as an essential part of the growing relationship between tabloid media and American conservative politics in the 1980s. It argues that widespread fears of Satanism in a range of cultural institutions was indispensable to the development and success of both infotainment, or tabloid content on television, and the rise of the New Right, a conservative political movement that was heavily guided by a growing coalition of influential televangelists, or evangelical preachers on television. It takes as its particular focus the hundreds of accusations that devil-worshippers were operating Americas white middle-class suburban daycare centers. Dozens of communities around the country became embroiled in trials against center owners, the most publicized of which was the McMartin Preschool trial in Manhattan Beach, California. It remains the longest and most expensive criminal trial in the nations history. Sarah Hughes is an independent scholar who received her PhD from Temple University, USA
Note Includes index.
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Series Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic.
Available in Other Form AMERICAN TABLOID MEDIA AND THE SATANIC PANIC, 1970-2000.
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Introduction
1. A 'Vast Wasteland': American Media in the 1980s
2. 'The Hyperreal and the Imaginary': The Satanic Panic as Infotainment
3. A Nightmare on Elm Street: Paranormal Activity in Evangelical Suburbia
4. 'The Perils of Punky': Gender, Childhood, and the Occult
5. Stay Tuned: The Panic and its Legacies.

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