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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

1. Introduction: Popular Panics

Author : Anthony Carlton Cooke

Published in: Moral Panics, Mental Illness Stigma, and the Deinstitutionalization Movement in American Popular Culture

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In the 1992 documentary, The Art of Horror, Clive Barker makes an extraordinary claim. He says that when the new millennium begins and we look back to discover the images that shaped twentieth-century Western culture, among the most prevalent we will find Mickey Mouse, King Kong, Fay Wray, and Hollywood actor Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s monster (Barker 1992).

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Metadata
Title
Introduction: Popular Panics
Author
Anthony Carlton Cooke
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Moral Panics, Mental Illness Stigma, and the Deinstitutionalization Movement in American Popular Culture

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-47978-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-47979-8

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47979-8_1