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贯穿了青年文化的历史，从童话故事和童谣到万圣节的持续流行，以及最近在全球范围内出现的“鸡皮疙瘩”和“怪奇物语”等现象。对于当今在焦虑和不稳定的时代长大的年轻人来说，恐怖有可能帮助他们了解周围的世界、他人和自己。然而，儿童与恐怖片的结合一直引起争议，因为人们认为这种类型对儿童和青少年有有害影响，这一观点并没有得到证实。这个国际网络将极大地影响人们对恐怖在儿童和青少年生活中的作用的理解。通过一系列活动，将各个教育层次的学者、教师和文化管理者聚集在一起，该网络将解决有关这种经常被歪曲的关系的重要问题。网络活动旨在重点关注四个总体主题，使我们的网络成员和合作伙伴的专业知识和兴趣得到充分利用：档案：过去如何在媒体和公共领域辩论和表达对儿童、年轻人和恐怖的社会关注？记忆：成年人对童年时期接触恐怖的记忆如何以及什么，这可以告诉我们关于儿童与恐怖之间复杂关系的什么信息？ 当今与儿童和青少年一起工作和/或参与其文化监管的成年人所感知的青少年与恐怖之间的关系？教育：如何（如果有的话）在教育中使用恐怖，以及需要哪些资源和信息来支持将恐怖融入教育环境？虽然所有这些主题的各个方面都将在每次活动中得到解决，但档案和记忆将在与我们的合作伙伴“屏幕学习”的第一次研讨会上被优先考虑。这将使所有网络成员能够调查网络如何利用现有的档案材料和受众研究来重新考虑公众对青少年和恐怖的看法的历史。特别是，屏幕学习的档案资源，即广播平台，将在本次活动中得到探索，因为它允许前所未有地了解历史上媒体对恐怖与青年之间关系的辩论方式。这些发现将集中为米德兰艺术中心与我们的合作伙伴 Into Film 和 Flatpack 电影节的展览、放映和观众讨论提供信息。该活动还将通过观众讨论和调查邀请代际反思儿童恐怖的框架和用途，从而优先考虑监管和教育主题。通过这一点，该网络将为各种声音（包括具有交叉背景的儿童和成人监护人）提供一个急需的平台，并对青少年对恐怖角色的现有看法以及网络活动如何改变这些看法产生宝贵的见解。这种讨论将在我们与 Into Film 和奥尔胡斯休闲恐惧实验室的活动中继续进行，这将使跨文化和跨学科的维度融入到项目中，并与 Into Film 在新的教育资源上进行必要的合作。该网络将以一次国际会议结束，这将使我们能够进一步考虑该网络的遗产，以及如何在我们的项目网站上捕捉这些遗产，并将其纳入未来对 Into Film 活动的网络贡献。总体而言，该网络将识别紧迫的挑战，并创建一系列资源来解决这些挑战，以便我们能够更好地理解年轻人与恐怖之间丰富而持久的关系的复杂性。