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Berger, Arthur Asa. The Comic-Stripped American: What Dick Tracy, Blondie, Daddy Warbucks and Charlie Brown Tell Us about Ourselves. New York: Walker, 1973. Added by: joachim (7/20/09, 1:29 AM) Last edited by: joachim (12/16/09, 3:17 AM) |
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Categories: General Keywords: Comic strip, Sociology, USA Creators: Berger Publisher: Walker (New York) |
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Table of Contents Foreword xiii Introduction 1 The Comic Page, Values, and American Society 5 Part I. The Innocents: The First Generation of Comics The Yellow Kid: Urban Poverty in the Good Old Days 23 The Katzenjammer Kids: Infantile Disorders of the Left and Right and Center 35 Mutt and Jeff: The Politics of Failure 47 Krazy Kat: The Social Dimensions of Fantasy 60 Part II. The Modern Age Comics: The Second Generation – or After the Fall! Little Orphan Annie: The Abandoned Years 79 Buck Rogers: The New Renaissance Hero of the Space Epics 93 Blondie: The Irrelevance of the American Husband 102 Dick Tracy: The Avenger – Evangelical Protestant Style 112 Flash Gordon: The Triumph of the Democratic Will 133 Dissociation in a Hero: Superman and the Divided Self 146 Batman and the Archaic Ego: The Aristocrat as Reformer 160 Pogo and His Friends in the Okefenokke Swamps: A Study in the Irony of Democracy 172 Peanuts: The Americanization of Augustine 181 Part III. The Age of Confusion: The Third Generation of Comics Marvel Comics: Machines, Monsters, and the Myth of America 199 Eroticomics: Or “What Are You Doing with That Submachine Gun, Barbarella?” 208 Mr. Natural and His Friends From the Underground: Infantile Disorders of the Cerebellum and the Crotch 216 Added by: joachim Last edited by: joachim |