"The Teenage Terror in the Schools": Adult Fantasies, American Youth, and Classroom Scare Films during the Cold War

Autor/in	Garrison, Joshua
Titel	"The Teenage Terror in the Schools": Adult Fantasies, American Youth, and Classroom Scare Films during the Cold War
Quelle	In: American Educational History Journal, 36 (2009) 1, S.3-21 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1535-0584
Schlagwörter	United States History; War; Social Systems; Political Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Adolescents; Television Viewing; Content Analysis; Mass Media Effects; Mass Media Role; Socialization; Urban to Suburban Migration; Values; Films; Class Activities; Children; Baby Boomers; Context Effect; Time Perspective; Social Problems; School Security; Violence; Age Differences; USSR + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Krieg; Social system; Soziales System; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Ausland; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Fernsehkonsum; Inhaltsanalyse; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Stadt-Umland-Beziehung; Wertbegriff; Film; Child; Kind; Kinder; Zeitbezug; Social problem; Soziales Problem; Gewalt; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied
Abstract	Unrealistic as they may have been, television shows like Leave it to Beaver and Ozzie and Harriet served important social purposes during an age of tumult and anxiety. The domestic sit-coms of the 1950s played an educative function by reinforcing and disseminating traditional values at a time when forces of change were becoming quite disruptive. Though television shows, books, and movies certainly exert educative influence, it is important to note that the media's campaign against young people was also pursued in formal educational settings. Due to the sheer number of classroom films that were produced during the Cold War period, the author reviews several dozen films that focus on "troubled" youth and the problems adults expected them to face as teenagers in the 1950s: drugs, crime, gangs, fast driving, dating, and sex. The author also examines the role played by classroom scare films during Cold War's "Youth Scare." (Contains 3 notes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10