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Comic books and the Cold War, 1946-1962 : essays on graphic treatment of communism, the code and social concerns / edited by Chris York and Rafiel York.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comic books, strips, etc--Social aspects--United States.
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Comic books, strips, etc--Political aspects--United States.
- Cold War--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Cold War.
- Cold War in popular culture.
- Cold War (1945-1989) in popular culture.
- Caricatures and cartoons.
- Comic books, strips, etc--Political aspects.
- Comic books, strips, etc--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2012]
- Summary:
- "Close analysis of individual titles--from atomic anxieties and the nuclear family to communist hysteria and social inequalities--manifests itself in the comic books of the era. By illuminating the complexities of mid-century graphic novels, this study demonstrates that postwar popular culture was far from monolithic in its representation of American values and beliefs"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Frederic Wertham, containment, and comic books / Chris York and Rafiel York
- Lights, camera, action 101 : a brief lesson on how to see an atomic bomb / Nathan Atkinson
- Decrypting espionage comic books in 1950s America / Peter Lee
- "He was a living breathing human being" : Harvey Kurtzman's war comics and the "yellow peril" in 1950s containment culture / Christopher B. Field
- "I can pass right through solid matter!" : how The Flash upheld American values while breaking the speed limit / Frederick A. Wright
- Jack Kirby's challengers of the unknown : establishing order in an age of anxiety / Phillip Payne and Paul J. Spaeth
- Red menace on the moon : containment in space as depicted in comics of the 1950s / John Donovan
- Girls who sinned in secret and paid in public : romance comics, 1949-1954 / Jeanne Gardner
- Rebellion in Riverdale / Rafiel York
- The Amazon mystique : subverting Cold War domesticity in Wonder Woman comics, 1948-1965 / Ruth McClelland-Nugent
- The girls in white : nurse images in early Cold War era romance and war comics / Christopher J. Hayton and Sheila Hayton
- Horror camp : homoerotic subtext in EC Comics / Diana Green
- "Dedicated to the youth of America" : deviant narration in crime does not pay / Chris York
- Mad's guest writers / Lawrence Rodman
- Beyond the frontier : Turok, Son of Stone and the Native American in Cold War America / Chris York
- East Europeans in "this godless communism" / Alexander Maxwell
- The fantastic four : a mirror of Cold War America / Rafiel York.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780786449811
- 0786449810
- OCLC:
- 774213667
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