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Henry James Forman
Henry James Forman (February 17, 1879 – January 3, 1966) was an author famous for his 1933 book '' Our Movie Made Children'', which was a summary of the Payne Fund Studies The Payne Fund Studies were a series of studies conducted to determine the effects of movies on the behavior of children and adolescents. They were paid for by The Payne Fund, a private foundation, and performed in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Th .... The book has been described as an " alarmist tome", and was responsible for publicizing the study's more negative results.Doherty, p. 322; Massey, pp. 29–30; Jowett, Jarvie, and Fuller, pp. 94–95. References Sources *Doherty, Thomas Patrick. ''Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema 1930-1934''. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. *Jowett, Garth S., Ian C. Jarvie, and Kathryn H. Fuller. ''Children and the movies: media influence and the Payne Fund controversy''. Cambridge University Press, 1996. *Massey, Anne. ''Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Our Movie Made Children
''Our Movie Made Children'' was written by Henry James Forman and published in May 1933. Commissioned by W.W. Charters, the Chairman of the Committee on Educational Research of the Payne Fund, Forman was "entrusted the task of preparing a popular summary" of the conclusions found by the various scholars who conducted the studies. The investigations were conducted between 1929 and 1933 at the request of the Motion Picture Research Council and include: * ''Motion Pictures and Youth'' by W.W. Charters, combined with :: ''Getting Ideas From The Movies'' by P.W. Holiday and George D. Stoddard * ''The Content of Motion Pictures and Children's Attendance at Motion Pictures'' by Edgar Dale * ''The Emotional Responses of Children to the Motion Picture Situation'' by W.S. Dysing and Christian A. Ruckmick, combined with :: ''Motion Pictures and Standards of Morality'' by Charles C. Peters * ''Motion Pictures and the Social Attitudes of Children'' by Ruth C. Peterson and L.L. Thurstone, comb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Payne Fund Studies
The Payne Fund Studies were a series of studies conducted to determine the effects of movies on the behavior of children and adolescents. They were paid for by The Payne Fund, a private foundation, and performed in the late 1920s and early 1930s. They have been criticized as lacking scientific rigor but were the first attempt to rigorously study the media. They were politically significant and were instrumental in the enforcement of the Hays Code. They are credited with contributing to the demise of Pre-Code film-making in Hollywood. Reception Newspapers including Cleveland's ''The Plain Dealer'', New Orleans '' Times Picayune'', ''Chicago Daily News'', ''Atlanta Journal'', '' Saint Paul Dispatch'', the Philadelphia '' Record'' and '' Public Ledger'', the Boston ''American'' and New York's '' Daily News'', ''Daily Mirror'', and ''Evening Post ''Evening Post'' or ''The Evening Post'' may refer to the following newspapers: United Kingdom * ''Evening Post'' (London) (1710–17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alarmism
Alarmism is excessive or exaggerated alarm of a real or imagined threat. Alarmism connotes attempts to excite fears or giving warnings of great danger in a manner that is amplified, overemphasized or unwarranted. In the news media, alarmism can often be found in the form of yellow journalism where reports sensationalise a story to exaggerate small risks. Alarmist personality The alarmist person is subject to the cognitive distortion of catastrophizingof always expecting the worst of possible futures. They may also be seeking to preserve feelings of omnipotence by trying to generate anxiety, apprehension and concern in others. False accusation The charge of alarmism can be used to discredit a legitimate warning, as when Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 1 ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1879 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – The Specie Resumption Act takes effect. The United States Note is valued the same as gold, for the first time since the American Civil War. * January 11 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins. * January 22 – Anglo-Zulu War – Battle of Isandlwana: A force of 1,200 British soldiers is wiped out by over 20,000 Zulu warriors. * January 23 – Anglo-Zulu War – Battle of Rorke's Drift: Following the previous day's defeat, a smaller British force of 140 successfully repels an attack by 4,000 Zulus. * February 3 – Mosley Street in Newcastle upon Tyne (England) becomes the world's first public highway to be lit by the electric incandescent light bulb invented by Joseph Swan. * February 8 – At a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute, engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming first proposes the global adoption of standard time. * March 3 – United States Geological Survey is founded. * March 11 – Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo is deposed by a military coup in the Republic of Upper Volta (modern-day Burkina Faso). * January 10 ** Pakistani–Indian peace negotiations end successfully with the signing of the Tashkent Declaration, a day before the sudden death of Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. ** Georgia House of Representatives, The House of Representatives of the US state of Georgia refuses to allow African-American representative Julian Bond to take his seat, because of his anti-war stance. ** A Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference convenes in Lagos, Nigeria, primarily to discuss Rhodesia. * January 12 – United States President Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communism, Communist aggression there is e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Non-fiction Writers
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Place Of Birth Missing
Place may refer to: Geography * Place (United States Census Bureau), defined as any concentration of population ** Census-designated place, a populated area lacking its own municipal government * "Place", a type of street or road name ** Often implies a dead end (street) or cul-de-sac * Place, based on the Cornish word "plas" meaning mansion * Place, a populated place, an area of human settlement ** Incorporated place (see municipal corporation), a populated area with its own municipal government * Location (geography), an area with definite or indefinite boundaries or a portion of space which has a name in an area Placenames * Placé, a commune in Pays de la Loire, Paris, France * Plače, a small settlement in Slovenia * Place (Mysia), a town of ancient Mysia, Anatolia, now in Turkey * Place, New Hampshire, a location in the United States * Place House, a 16th-century mansion largely remodelled in the 19th century, in Fowey, Cornwall * Place House, a 19th-century mansion on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
