Peter Turner is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Media Production at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of Found Footage Horror Films: A Cognitive Approach (2019) and Devil’s Advocates: The Blair Witch Project (2014).

In Unsuitable Film and Video Audiences, Peter Turner’s extensive audience research opens a doorway to rich and evocative memories of illicit childhood film viewing. Rigorously researched and contextualised, Turner’s examination of these memories explores, challenges and reframes our understanding of the pleasures and problems of childhood consumption of forbidden cinema.

• List of figuresAcknowledgements1. IntroductionPart I. Spaces, Practices and Emotions of Forbidden Viewing2. Video Shops, Playgrounds and Situated Memories3. “It’s Analogous to Christmas Eve”: Remembering How Video Watching FeltPart II. Genre Matters: Horror, Comedy and Taboo Content4. “I Knew They Could Mess Me Up”: Children Watching Horror and Sexual Violence5. Silently Squirming: Sex, Swearing and ComedyPart III. Gender, Identity and Video Watching6. "You Are Allowed to Watch the Blood and Guts, but Not the Boobs": Gendered Parenting and Restricted Access7. Underage Viewings and Masculine Identity, Bonding and Pressures8. “The Artier Films I Watched Alone”: Social vs Solo Viewing9. ConclusionAppendix 1 QuestionnaireAppendix 2 Interview ScheduleBibliographyIndex

Peter Turner is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Media Production at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of Found Footage Horror Films: A Cognitive Approach (2019) and Devil’s Advocates: The Blair Witch Project (2014).

In Unsuitable Film and Video Audiences, Peter Turner’s extensive audience research opens a doorway to rich and evocative memories of illicit childhood film viewing. Rigorously researched and contextualised, Turner’s examination of these memories explores, challenges and reframes our understanding of the pleasures and problems of childhood consumption of forbidden cinema.

• List of figuresAcknowledgements1. IntroductionPart I. Spaces, Practices and Emotions of Forbidden Viewing2. Video Shops, Playgrounds and Situated Memories3. “It’s Analogous to Christmas Eve”: Remembering How Video Watching FeltPart II. Genre Matters: Horror, Comedy and Taboo Content4. “I Knew They Could Mess Me Up”: Children Watching Horror and Sexual Violence5. Silently Squirming: Sex, Swearing and ComedyPart III. Gender, Identity and Video Watching6. "You Are Allowed to Watch the Blood and Guts, but Not the Boobs": Gendered Parenting and Restricted Access7. Underage Viewings and Masculine Identity, Bonding and Pressures8. “The Artier Films I Watched Alone”: Social vs Solo Viewing9. ConclusionAppendix 1 QuestionnaireAppendix 2 Interview ScheduleBibliographyIndex

Peter Turner is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Media Production at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of Found Footage Horror Films: A Cognitive Approach (2019) and Devil’s Advocates: The Blair Witch Project (2014).

In Unsuitable Film and Video Audiences, Peter Turner’s extensive audience research opens a doorway to rich and evocative memories of illicit childhood film viewing. Rigorously researched and contextualised, Turner’s examination of these memories explores, challenges and reframes our understanding of the pleasures and problems of childhood consumption of forbidden cinema.

• List of figuresAcknowledgements1. IntroductionPart I. Spaces, Practices and Emotions of Forbidden Viewing2. Video Shops, Playgrounds and Situated Memories3. “It’s Analogous to Christmas Eve”: Remembering How Video Watching FeltPart II. Genre Matters: Horror, Comedy and Taboo Content4. “I Knew They Could Mess Me Up”: Children Watching Horror and Sexual Violence5. Silently Squirming: Sex, Swearing and ComedyPart III. Gender, Identity and Video Watching6. "You Are Allowed to Watch the Blood and Guts, but Not the Boobs": Gendered Parenting and Restricted Access7. Underage Viewings and Masculine Identity, Bonding and Pressures8. “The Artier Films I Watched Alone”: Social vs Solo Viewing9. ConclusionAppendix 1 QuestionnaireAppendix 2 Interview ScheduleBibliographyIndex