Research Catalog

Title

Violence on television : Congressional inquiry, public criticism, and industry response : a policy analysis / Cynthia A. Cooper.

Author

Cooper, Cynthia A.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c1996.

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Description

ix, 201 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Television and children > United States
• Television broadcasting policy > United States
• Violence on television

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-197) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Broadcast policy making research : participants, structures and influences -- The study of congressional hearings and their impact -- Early concerns over media violence : parents protest Betty Boop and the Ether Bogeyman -- The beginning of forty years of investigation : television, the preparatory school for juvenile delinquency -- Newton Minow and Senator Thomas Dodd : responding to citizen efforts to clean up the vast wasteland -- The Kennedy assassination and the search for the cause of violence -- The National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence hearings -- Senator John Pastore and the Surgeon General : the blind leading the blindfolded? -- The Surgeon General's report by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Television & Social Behavior -- Citizen advocacy and the FCC : attempts to regulate television violence through Section 315 and the fairness doctrine -- In search of a causal link between television and behavior -- Sex and violence on television : parts I & II -- Television violence and the courts : don't blame me, television made me do it! -- NBC and the Moral Majority : a holy war over violence on television -- Removing the shackles of anticompetitive legislation -- Aftermath of the antitrust exemption : "Happy violence" and a concern youth violence -- Janet Reno vs. Beavis and Butthead : congressional debate over the renewal of the Television improvement act -- The V-chip and program ratings system : Congress passes the Telecommunications act of 1996.

ISBN

• 0761804765 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0761804773 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96032884^

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Harvard Library