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Klappentext Children and the Movies: Media Influence and the Payne Fund Controversy analyzes the first and most comprehensive investigation of the influence of movies on American youth, the Payne Fund Studies. First published in 1933, these studies are important for their insights and conclusions regarding the effects of movies on behavior. They are, moreover, a 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. Based on newly discovered primary sources, whose contents are published here for the first time, this volume also reproduces a long-missing Payne Fund study. Zusammenfassung An analysis of 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the authors; Foreword George Gerbner; Acknowledgements; Dramatis Personae: biographical sketches of participants in the Payne Fund studies; Introduction: the Payne Fund studies and their continuing significance for communications research; Part I. History of the Payne Fund Studies: 1. Social science as a weapon: the origins of the Payne Fund studies, 1926-9; 2. Movie made social science: the enterprise of the Payne Fund studies researchers, 1928-33; 3. Aftermath: the summaries and reception of the Payne Fund studies; Part II. The Unpublished Payne Fund Material: 4. The lost manuscript; 5. The Intervale study; 6. Student movie autobiographies and 'movies and sex'; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index of names; Index of subjects.
