Children and the Movies: Media Influence and the Payne Fund ControversyChildren and the Movies: Media Influence and the Payne Fund Controversy analyzes the first and most comprehensive study of the influence of movies on American youth, the Payne Fund Studies. First published in 1933, these studies are intrinsically important for their insights and conclusions regarding the effects of movies on behaviour. They are, moreover, also an important landmark of modern social science research, demonstrating the rapid evolution of this discipline in American academic institutions over the first three decades of the century. |
Contents
The Payne Fund Studies and Their Continuing | 1 |
The Origins of the Payne Fund | 17 |
The Enterprise of the Payne | 57 |
The Summaries and Reception of the Payne | 92 |
The Lost Manuscript | 125 |
The Intervale Study | 217 |
Student Movie Autobiographies and Movies and Sex | 237 |
The Payne Fund and Radio Broadcasting | 303 |
The Motion Picture Experience as Modified | 336 |
Notes | 346 |
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Children and the Movies: Media Influence and the Payne Fund Controversy Garth S. Jowett,Ian C. Jarvie,Kathryn H. Fuller No preview available - 2007 |
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