Moving Images: Understanding Children's Responses to Television

by David Buckingham

Book Overview

Concerns about the effects of television on young children are a recurrent focus of public controversy. Yet amid all the anxiety, children's voices are rarely heard. In this book, one of Britain's leading television researchers investigates children's own perspectives on what they find frightening, moving and upsetting. From "Nightmare on Elm Street" to "My Girl", from "The Colour Purple" to "The News at Ten", what children find upsetting is often...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719045967
• ISBN13: 9780719045967
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.8"