Introduction: not a peanut gallery -- "Good grief, I thought it was the fallout": Charlie Brown and the long 50s / Cliff Starkey -- Different worlds: adults, children and their relationship / Olaf Meuther -- Listening to Charlie Brown: musicians and music making as Cold War era critique / Tom Zlabinger -- To hell with Franklin: spilling ink on the color line / Peter W.Y. Lee -- Be a good spaceman, Charlie Brown: Charles M. Schulz and the space race / Peter W.Y. Lee -- Little girls with big voices: how Charles Schulz's girl characters challenge the patriarchy in which they are trapped / Erin C. Callahan -- "The doctor is in": gender, space and power in Lucy's psychiatric booth / Catherine W. Zipf -- No room for normality: Shermy and postwar childhood / Peter W.Y. Lee -- Cold War Snoopy, or, do beagles dream of electronic bunnies? / Jessica K. Brandt.
Summary:
"Focusing on Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts strip's Cold War roots, this collection of new essays explores existentialism, the reshaping of the nuclear family, the Civil Rights Movement, 1960s counterculture, feminism, psychiatry and fear of the bomb. Chapters focus on the development of Lucy, Peppermint Patty, Schroeder, Franklin, Shermy, Snoopy and the other characters that became American icons"-- Provided by publisher.
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