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Goodrum, Michael and Philip Smith. "‘This is the end of the road for science’: The mad doctor in Cold War horror comics." Horror Studies 14. (2023): 61–85. Added by: joachim (30/11/2025, 19:54) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1386/host_00062_1 BibTeX citation key: Goodrum2023 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Cold War, Horror, Medicine, Sciences, USA Creators: Goodrum, Smith Collection: Horror Studies |
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This article concerns the representation of scientists, doctors and other agents of reason in Cold War horror comics. Such figures, we demonstrate, are typically represented as misguided, blind to the dangers of their creations or knowingly malevolent. The manifestation of this trend in the 1950s can be understood as a facet of the larger programme of post-Second World War social criticism found in the genre. When horror comics returned after the revision of the Code in 1971, some aligned with the anti-psychiatry movement. These comics portray scenarios in which the discovery of things man was not meant to know extends beyond weapons of war to the human psyche and where psychology as a discipline serves as a repressive apparatus interested primarily in the preservation of social norms rather than the emotional health of patients.
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