Youth and Horror Network

从童话故事和童谣到万圣节的持续流行，以及最近的一些世界性现象，如鸡皮疙瘩和奇怪的事情，童年和恐怖之间的关系贯穿了整个青年文化史。对于今天的年轻人来说，他们成长在一个以焦虑和不稳定为特征的时代，恐惧有可能帮助他们了解周围的世界、他人和自己。然而，儿童与恐怖的相遇一直吸引着争议，因为没有得到支持的观点认为这一流派对儿童和年轻人是有害的影响。这一国际网络将极大地影响人们对恐怖在儿童和青年生活中的作用的理解。通过一系列活动将来自各学科和部门的学者、各级教育教师和文化管理人员聚集在一起，该网络将解决关于这种经常被歪曲的关系的关键问题。网络活动旨在聚焦于四个最重要的主题，使我们的网络成员和合作伙伴的一系列专业知识和兴趣得到充分利用：档案：过去社会对儿童、年轻人和恐怖的关注是如何在媒体和公共领域进行辩论和表现的？记忆：成年人如何以及记得他们童年时参与恐怖活动的情况，这能告诉我们什么关于儿童和恐怖之间的复杂关系？监管：今天与儿童和年轻人一起工作的成年人和/或参与其文化监管的成年人如何看待青年和恐怖之间的关系？教育：如何，如果有的话，恐怖是否用于教育，需要哪些资源和信息来支持将恐怖融入教育背景？虽然所有这些主题的方面都将在每次活动中讨论，但档案和记忆将在第一次研讨会上优先考虑，我们的合作伙伴学习将出现在屏幕上。这将使所有网络成员能够调查现有的档案材料和受众研究如何被网络利用，以重新考虑公众对青年和恐怖的看法的历史。特别是，屏幕学习的档案资源，广播的盒子平台，将在这次活动中被探索，因为它允许史无前例地获得恐怖与青年之间的关系在整个历史上一直在媒体中辩论的方式。这些发现将在米德兰艺术中心与我们的合作伙伴INTO电影和Flatpack电影节的展览、放映和观众讨论中发挥重要作用。本次活动还将通过观众讨论和调查，邀请对儿童恐惧的框架和使用进行代际反思，从而优先考虑监管和教育主题。通过这一网络，该网络将为各种声音提供一个急需的平台，包括具有不同背景的儿童和成人监护人的声音，并对恐怖在青年中的作用的现有看法以及这些看法因网络活动而发生的变化产生宝贵的洞察力。这一讨论将在我们与INT电影和奥胡斯的娱乐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INT电影就新的教育资源进行必要的合作。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到这一点，并为未来的网络贡献提供给INTO电影活动。作为一个整体，该网络将确定紧迫的挑战，并创建一系列资源来应对这些挑战，这样我们就可以更好地理解年轻人与恐怖之间富有和持久的关系的复杂性。

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.