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Deviance and mass media / edited by Charles Winick.

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Deviance and mass media / edited by Charles Winick.
Publication
Beverly Hills, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1978.

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Winick, Charles, 1922-2015.
Description
309 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Series Statement
Sage annual reviews of studies in deviance ; v. 2
Uniform Title
Sage annual reviews of studies in deviance ; v. 2.
Subject
  • Deviant behavior in mass media
  • Mass media > Social aspects > United States
  • Mass media > United States > Psychological aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Deviance and mass media: introducing a volume / Charles Winick -- Part I: Mass treatments of deviance: some contemporary examples / 1. Deviance and power: symbolic functions of "drug abuse" / George Gerbner -- 2. Obesity and the popular arts / Philip J. Leonhard-Spark -- 3. Mental illness and psychiatrists in movies / Charles Winick -- 4. The presentation of illness on television / Joan Liebmann-Smith and Sharon L. Rosen -- 5. The treatment of death in sympathy cards / Abigail Stahl Woods and Robert G. Delisle -- 6. Crime and law enforcement in the mass media / Joseph R. Dominick -- Part II: Deviant media behavior -- 7. The barseback "panic": a case of media deviance / Karl Erik Rosengren, Peter Arvidsson, and Dahn Sturesson -- Part III: Comparative studies -- 8. The case of rape: legal restrictions on media coverage of deviance in England and America / Gilbert Geis -- 9: How much heat, how much light: coverage of New York City's blackout and looting in the print media / Andrew Karmen -- Part IV: Media contributions to deviance -- 10. Social creation of crime news: All the news fitted to print / Sanford Sherizen -- 11. Character assassination in the press / Gerald Cromer -- Transsexualism: legitimation, amplification, and exploitation of deviance by scientists and mass media / Edward Sagarin -- Nonvoting: the media's role / Garrett J. O'Keefe and Harold Mendelsohn -- 14. Studying violence and the media: a sociological approach / James D. Halloran.
ISBN
  • 0803910401
  • 080391041X
LCCN
^^^78016024^//r83
OCLC
  • 4056231
  • SCSB-10512769
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Harvard Library