Comic Books and America, 1945-1954 – Buch gebraucht kaufen

0806123052

(ISBN-13: 9780806123059)

leichte Gebrauchsspuren

222x150 mm

148

410 g

Norman

Hardcover/gebunden

Englisch

This text measures a remarkably popular medium's reflection of social and political problems during a troubled period in American history. In addition to their entertainment value, comic books offered a world-view to a large segment of the American public in the confusion to the decade following World War II. By 1945, comic books were more than simply diversions for children: millions had been distributed to service personnel during the war years. And in the postwar decade, adults as well as children purchased and read an outstanding 60 million comic books per month. These books treated such contemporary concerns as the atomic and hydrogen bombs, the growth of international Communism, and the Korean War, and they offered heroes and heroines to deal with such problems. In response to moral criticism leveled against comic books in 1954, the industry established a Comics Code that specified acceptable comic-book content. The code prohibited most of what had appeared in the medium prior to 1954, and what has since come to be known as the "golden age" of comic books came abruptly to an end. In exploring materials often dismissed as ephermeral and inconsequential, "Comic Books and America" reveals a great deal about the society that produced this literature and offers clues to the beliefs and attitudes of adults today, many of whom were avid readers of comic books in their formative years.

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Comicforschung, Comic history, Comic books, History

ja – mehr Erstausgaben von Savage, William W.

1990

09.01.2022

BN00033