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

Other author Lent, John A.
Format Book
Publication InfoMadison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©1999.
Description306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Comics debates internationally : their genesis, issues, and commonalities / John A. Lent -- 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, pictorial 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 98030640
ISBN0838637841

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PN6710 .P85 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold