Youth and Horror Network

青少年与恐怖网络

• 批准号: AH/X01245X/1
• 负责人: Catherine Lester
• 金额: $ 4.73万
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX01245X%2F1
• 关键词: Youth; Horror; Network

The relationship between childhood and horror has persisted throughout the history of youth culture, from fairy tales and nursery rhymes to the ongoing popularity of Halloween and recent worldwide phenomena like 'Goosebumps' and 'Stranger Things'. For youth today, who are growing up in an age characterised by anxiety and instability, horror has the potential to help them understand the world around them, other people, and themselves. However, the meeting of children and horror consistently attracts controversy due to unsupported perceptions that the genre is a harmful influence upon children and young people. This international network will significantly impact upon understandings of the role of horror in children and young people's lives. By bringing together scholars, teachers at all educational levels, and cultural managers from across disciplines and sectors through a series of events, the network will address vital questions about this frequently misrepresented relationship. The network activities have been designed to focus on four overarching themes, enabling the range of expertise and interests of our network members and partners to be fully utilised:Archives: How have societal concerns about children, young people and horror been debated and represented in the media and public sphere in the past?Memory: How and what do adults remember about engaging with horror in their childhoods and what can this tell us about the complex relations between children and horror?Regulation: How is the relationship between youth and horror perceived today by adults who work with children and young people and/or who are involved in the regulation of their culture?Education: How, if at all, is horror used in education, and what resources and information are needed to support the integration of horror into educational contexts?While aspects of all of these themes will be addressed at every event, Archives and Memory will be prioritised at the first workshop with our partner Learning on Screen. This will enable all network members to investigate how existing archival material and audience research can be harnessed by the network to reconsider the history of public perceptions of youth and horror. In particular, the archival resource of Learning on Screen, the Box of Broadcasts platform, will be explored at this event as it allows unprecedented access to the way that the relationship between horror and youth has been debated in the media throughout history. These findings will centrally inform an exhibition, screening and audience discussion at the Midlands Arts Centre with our partners Into Film and Flatpack Film Festival. This event will also prioritise the themes of Regulation and Education by inviting intergenerational reflections on the framing and uses of horror for children through an audience discussion and survey. Through this, the network will provide a much-needed platform for a diversity of voices, including of children and adult guardians of intersectional backgrounds, and generate invaluable insight into existing perceptions of the role of horror in youth and how these have changed as a result of the network activities. This discussion will continue in our event with Into Film and the Recreational Fear Lab in Aarhus, which will enable a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary dimension to be incorporated into the project, and essential collaboration to occur with Into Film on new educational resources. The network will end with an international conference, which will enable us to further consider the legacy of the network and how this will be captured on our project website and feed into future network contributions to Into Film events. As a whole, the network will identify pressing challenges, and create a range of resources to address them, so we can facilitate much greater understanding about the complexities of the rich and enduring relationship between young people and horror.

童年与恐怖之间的关系一直存在于整个青年文化的历史，从童话和托儿所押韵到万圣节的持续普及以及最近的全球现象，例如“鸡皮bumps”和“陌生人事物”。对于今天以焦虑和不稳定为特征的年龄的年轻人来说，恐怖有可能帮助他们了解周围的世界，其他人和自己。但是，由于对这种类型是对儿童和年轻人的有害影响，儿童和恐怖的会议一直引起争议。这个国际网络将对恐怖在儿童和年轻人生活中的作用的理解产生重大影响。通过将学者，所有教育水平的教师以及来自学科和部门的文化经理通过一系列事件汇集在一起​​，该网络将解决有关这种经常歪曲的关系的重要问题。网络活动旨在专注于四个总体主题，使我们的网络成员和合作伙伴的专业知识和利益范围充分利用：档案：档案：社会对儿童，年轻人和恐怖的关注如何在过去的媒体和公共领域中辩论和恐怖，在过去的媒体和公共领域中，记忆如何与孩子之间的恐惧和恐怖之间的关系？ relationship between youth and horror perceived today by adults who work with children and young people and/or who are involved in the regulation of their culture?Education: How, if at all, is horror used in education, and what resources and information are needed to support the integration of horror into educational contexts?While aspects of all of these themes will be addressed at every event, Archives and Memory will be prioritised at the first workshop with our partner Learning on Screen.这将使所有网络成员能够调查网络现有的档案材料和受众研究如何利用，以重新考虑公众对青年和恐怖的看法的历史。特别是，将在屏幕上学习的档案资源，即广播平台的盒子，将在此活动中进行探索，因为它允许前所未有的访问恐怖与青年之间的关系在整个历史上都在媒体上进行了辩论。这些发现将与我们的合作伙伴一起参加电影和Flatpack电影节，在中部艺术中心进行集中介绍展览，放映和观众讨论。这项活动还将通过观众的讨论和调查来邀请对儿童的框架和使用恐怖的构架和用途来邀请代际反思来确定法规和教育的主题。通过此，该网络将为各种各样的声音提供急需的平台，包括相互交叉背景的儿童和成人监护人，并对现有对恐怖在青年中的作用的看法以及由于网络活动的影响而产生无价的见解。这次讨论将在我们的活动中继续进行电影和阿尔胡斯的娱乐恐惧实验室，这将使跨文化和跨学科维度能够纳入项目，并在新的教育资源上与电影进行必不可少的合作。该网络将以国际会议结束，该会议将使我们能够进一步考虑网络的遗产以及如何在我们的项目网站上捕获该网络，并为未来的网络贡献添加到电影活动中。总体而言，该网络将确定紧迫的挑战，并创建一系列资源来解决这些挑战，因此我们可以促进对年轻人与恐怖之间富裕和持久关系的复杂性的更大了解。