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Title:

Pulp demons : international dimensions of the postwar anti-comics campaign / edited by John A. Lent.

Publisher:

Associated University Presses ,
Associated University Presses ,

Copyright Date:

c1999

Description:

306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Comic books, strips, etc.--Criticism and interpretation.
Comic books and children
Censorship.

Other Authors:

Lent, John A.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Fredric Wertham : a social psychiatrist characterizes crime comic books and media violence as public health issues / James E. Reibman. Comic book censorship in the United States / Amy Kiste Nyberg -- Getting a conviction : or, how the British horror comics campaign only just succeeded / Martin Barker -- Comics debate in Germany : against dirt and rubbish, pictoral idiotism, and cultural analphabetism / Goran Jovanovic and Ulrich Koch -- "They have a bad effect" : crime comics, Parliament, and the hegemony of the middle class in postwar Canada / Mona Gleason -- Comics discourse in Australia and Fredric Wertham's Seduction of the innocent / Graeme Osborne -- Comics controversies and codes : reverberations in Asia / John A. Lent -- Fredric Wertham, the sad case of the unhappy humanist / Martin Barker -- Fredric Wertham : a social psychiatrist characterizes crime comic books and media violence as public health issues / James E. Reibman.

ISBN:

9780838637845
0838637841

OCLC:

(OCoLC)39633478

LCCN:

98030640

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)