Charlie Brown's America the popular politics of Peanuts

Introduction -- You're a good man, Charles Schulz: the making of an American original -- The future frightens me: the Cold War origins of Peanuts -- Bless you for Charlie Brown: Peanuts and the Evangelical counterculture -- Crosshatch is beautiful: Franklin, color-blindness, and the limits of r...

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1. Verfasser: Ball, Blake Scott (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Oxford University Press 2021
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction -- You're a good man, Charles Schulz: the making of an American original -- The future frightens me: the Cold War origins of Peanuts -- Bless you for Charlie Brown: Peanuts and the Evangelical counterculture -- Crosshatch is beautiful: Franklin, color-blindness, and the limits of racial integration -- Snoopy is the hero in Vietnam: ambivalence, empathy, and Peanuts' Vietnam War -- I believe in conserving energy: Peanuts, nature, and an environmental ethos -- "I have a vision, Charlie Brown": gender roles, abortion rights, sex education, and Peanuts in the age of the women's movement -- Epilogue: Snoopy, come home
"Charles Schulz's Peanuts was an unexpectedly political comic strip. While many people have come to identify Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Peppermint Patty, and Snoopy with childhood and innocence, Peanuts regularly commented on the politics and social turmoil of Cold War America. From nuclear testing to the Civil Rights Movement, from the Vietnam War to the feminist revolution, Peanuts was an unlikely medium for Americans of all stripes to debate the hopes and fears of the era. Charlie Brown's America is the story of how the creation of one midwestern man became one of the most influential pop culture properties of the twentieth century and what its popularity reveals about the character of the United States"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Beschreibung:xii, 239 Seiten
Illustrationen, Comics (schwarz-weiß)
25 cm
ISBN:9780190090463
978-0-19-009046-3