Foreword / Martin Barker
Introduction / Siân Nicholas and Tom O'Malley
Approaches to the Media, Moral Panics and Social Fears. Model Answers: Moral Panics and Media History / Chas Critcher
Moral Panics, Emotion and Newspaper History / Kevin Williams
The Wertham case: Evaluating Effects on Media Theories / Janet Staiger
The Media as an Object of Fear. "I Will Answer You, My Friend, but I am Afraid": Telephones and the Fear of a New Medium in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Italy / Gabriele Balbi
The Dreadful World of Edwardian Wireless / David Hendy
Cinema, Social Fears and Moral Panics in Britain's Tropical Empire / James Burns
The Response to Television in the UK 1947-77: A Study in the Media and Social Fear / Tom O'Malley
Panics, fear and the media. Unmarried: Unmarried Motherhood in Post-First World War British Film / Eve Colpus
Watching the Detectives (and the Constables): Fearing the Police in 1920s Britain / John Carter Wood
Fifth Columnists, Collaborators and Black Marketeers: Fearing the "Enemy Within" in the Wartime British Media / Siân Nicholas
Citizenship, Sexual Anxiety and Womanhood in Second World War Britain: the Case of the Man with the Cleft Chin / Matthew Grant
"Enemy television": fear as a motive force in East German television programming / Claudia Dittmar
"The Ugly Tide of Today's Teenage Violence": Revisiting the Clockwork Orange Controversy in the UK / Peter Kramer.
Moral panics, social fears, and the media : historical perspectives. ISBN 9780415501613. Published by Routledge in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.