The ten-cent plague the great comic-book scare and how it changed America
In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created--in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books. Comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. No soo...
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Sprache: | eng |
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New York
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2008
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Ausgabe: | 1. ed. |
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Zusammenfassung: | In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created--in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books. Comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. No sooner had this new culture emerged than it was beaten down by church groups, community bluestockings, and a McCarthyish Congress. This book opens up the lost world of comic books, its creativity, irreverence, and suspicion of authority, showing how--years before rock 'n' roll--comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards.-- From publisher description. |
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references |
Beschreibung: | 434 S. |
ISBN: | 9780374187675 978-0-374-18767-5 |