What is it about?
Heated controversies had dogged US radio programming for children since the early 1930s, but in the 1940s progressive child experts sought to develop programs that were both instructive and thrilling. This paper explores key example, "House of Mystery", qaand its pioneering creator Olga Druce.
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Why is it important?
Besides shedding light on a pioneering yet neglected female media practitioner, this paper uses extensive primary documentation to profile a key period in 20th century children's media culture and the controversies it inspired.
Perspectives
This paper opens up for scrutiny a forgotten chapter in US radio, suggesting that current debates and panics that dog children's culture are by no means new.
Frank Krutnik
University of Sussex
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This page is a summary of: Therapeutic Horror? Olga Druce, House of Mystery
and the Controversy over Children's Radio Thrillers, Journal of American Culture, December 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jacc.12809.
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