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Writing the Child in Media Theory

Abstract:The figure of the child is massively present in discourses around film, television, and video, and legitimates regulation and censorship. The discursive role of the child is parallel to representations of the adult mass audience as childlike: valued but unruly, and in need of control. Moral panics about children and media, from cinema in the early 1900s to the Bulger case, are based around fears of the irrational, anti-social, and violent child, and demonstrate the contradictory notions of the child as both innocent and dangerous. Media theory, journalism, and legislation 'write' the child as Other.