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Korean War Comic Books.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rifas, Leonard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comic books, strips, etc--United States--History--20th century.
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Korean War, 1950-1953--Literature and the war.
- Korean War, 1950-1953.
- Censorship--United States--History--20th century.
- Censorship.
- War in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (346 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson : McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Comic books have presented fictional and fact-based stories of the Korean War, as it was being fought and afterward. Comparing these comics with events that inspired them offers a deeper understanding of the comics industry, America's "forgotten war," and the anti-comics movement, championed by psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, who criticized their brutalization of the imagination. Comics-both newsstand offerings and government propaganda-used fictions to justify the unpopular war as necessary and moral. This book examines the dramatization of events and issues, including the war's origins, germ warfare, brainwashing, Cold War espionage, the nuclear threat, African Americans in the military, mistreatment of POWs, and atrocities."-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4766-4048-3
- OCLC:
- 1252422964
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