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American Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970-2000

Part of the Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-83636-8

ISBN: 978-3-030-83635-1

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Oct 28, 2021

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Chapter 1Introduction

Hughes, Sarah A.

Pages: 1 –11

[Introduction argues that the “satanic panic” of the 1980s fueled the expansion of both tabloid media and conservative ideology, binding them together in powerful ways that still resonate in modern American society and discourse. The decade’s rampant cultural fears over devil worship, which...
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Chapter 2A “Vast Wasteland”: American Media in the 1980s

Hughes, Sarah A.

Pages: 13 –53

[“A ‘Vast Wasteland’: American Media in the 1980s” ties the panic to the success and rapid proliferation of infotainment during the decade. It argues that cases of satanic ritual abuse were particularly suited to the presentation of tabloid material on television. When coupled with its live...
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Chapter 3“The Hyperreal and the Imaginary”: The Satanic Panic as Infotainment

Hughes, Sarah A.

Pages: 55 –88

[Chapter 3 provides an overview of the panic through the lens of the McMartin preschool trial in Manhattan Beach, California, which was the longest and costliest criminal trial in American history. The chapter examines how McMartin, as well as several other similar ritual abuse cases that...
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Chapter 4A Nightmare on Elm Street: Paranormal Activity in Evangelical Suburbia

Hughes, Sarah A.

Pages: 89 –157

[“A Nightmare on Elm Street: Paranormal Activity in Evangelical Suburbia” argues that the panic marked the height of a contemporary cultural fascination with devil worship and the occult that had gained momentum since the late 1960s. The chapter examines the various ways in which demonology...
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Chapter 5“The Perils of Punky,” Gender, Childhood, and the Occult

Hughes, Sarah A.

Pages: 159 –213

[“The Perils of Punky,” Gender, Childhood, and the Occult” looks at how prevailing notions of gender and childhood in the 1980s had a strong bearing on ritual abuse cases. These terms were often defined as part of the backlash to social movements starting in the late 1960s, particularly feminism....
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Chapter 6Stay Tuned: The Panic and Its Legacies

Hughes, Sarah A.

Pages: 215 –263

[Chapter 6, “Stay Tuned: The Panic and its Legacies,” discusses how the panic waned in the early 1990s and explores its many legacies. Although several prominent lawyers and journalists began to challenge ritual abuse cases in 1990, the political climate that allowed conservatives to strongly...

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