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Hajdu, David. The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. Added by: joachim (7/20/09, 1:33 AM) Last edited by: joachim (8/28/13, 4:21 PM) |
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| Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 0374187673 BibTeX citation key: Hajdu2008a Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: EC, Kulturpolitik, USA Creators: Hajdu Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York) |
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In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created—in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books. Comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. No sooner had this new culture emerged than it was beaten down by church groups, community bluestockings, and a McCarthyish Congress. This book opens up the lost world of comic books, its creativity, irreverence, and suspicion of authority, showing how—years before rock ’n’ roll—comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards.
Table of Contents Prologue (3) 1. Society Iss Nix (9) Epilogue (331) Appendix (337) Added by: joachim Last edited by: joachim |