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Goodrum, Michael and Philip Smith. Printing Terror: American Horror Comics as Cold War Commentary and Critique. Manchester, New York: Manchester Univ. Press, 2021. Added by: joachim (30/01/2021, 12:48) Last edited by: joachim (11/11/2021, 00:33) |
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| Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 978-1-5261-3592-6 BibTeX citation key: Goodrum2021 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Cold War, Ethnicity, Gender, Horror, USA Creators: Goodrum, Smith Publisher: Manchester Univ. Press (Manchester, New York) |
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Printing Terror places horror comics of the Cold War in dialogue with the anxieties of their age. It rejects the narrative of horror comics as inherently, and necessarily, subversive and explores, instead, the ways in which these texts manifest white male fears over America's changing sociological landscape. It examines two eras: the pre-CCA period of the 1940s up to 1954, and the post-CCA era to 1975. The book examines each of these periods through the lenses of war, gender, and race, demonstrating that horror comics at this time were centered on white male victimhood and the monstrosity of the gendered and/or racialised other.
Table of Contents List of Figures Introduction 1. “The dead – the slain – the unavenged.” – trauma in the 1940s and 1950s Bibliography |