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Bradford W. Wright Comic Book Nation (Paperback)
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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Book Title
- Comic Book Nation
- Title
- Comic Book Nation
- EAN
- 9780801874505
- ISBN
- 9780801874505
- Release Year
- 2003
- Release Date
- 12/12/2003
- Item Length
- 178mm
- Subtitle
- The Transformation of Youth Culture in America
- ISBN-10
- 0801874505
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Genre
- Society & Culture
- Topic
- Arts & Photography
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Comic Book Nation: the Transformation of Youth Culture in America
- Item Height
- 254 mm
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Subject
- History
- Item Weight
- 658 g
- Item Width
- 178 mm
- Number of Pages
- 360 Pages
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A history of the comic book industry within the context of 20th-century American society. From Batman's Depression-era battles against corrupt local politicians and Captain America's one-man war against Nazi Germany to Iron Man's Cold War exploits in Vietnam and Spider-Man's confrontations with student protestors and drug use in the early 1970s, comic books have continually reflected the US's national mood, as Wright's imaginative reading of thousands of titles from the 1930s to the 1980s makes clear. In every genre - superhero, war, romance, crime and horror comic books - Wright finds that writers and illustrators used the medium to address a variety of serious issues, including racism, economic injustice, fascism, the threat of nuclear war, drug abuse and teenage alienation. At the same time, xenophobic wartime series proved that comic books could be as reactionary as any medium. Wright's lively study also focuses on the role comic books played in transforming children and adolescents into consumers; the industry's ingenious efforts to market their products to legions of young but savvy fans; the efforts of parents, politicians, religious organizations, civic groups and child psychologists like Dr Fredric Wertham (whose 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent , a salacious expose of the medium's violence and sexual content, led to US Senate hearings) to link juvenile delinquency to comic books and impose censorship on the industry; and the changing economics of comic book publishing over the course of the century. For the paperback edition, Wright has written a new postscript that details industry developments in the late 1990s and the response of comic artists to the tragedy of 9/11. Comic Book Nation is at once a serious study of popular culture and an entertaining look at an enduring American art form.
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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13
9780801874505
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96542560
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
360 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Comic Book Nation: the Transformation of Youth Culture in America
Publication Year
2003
Subject
History
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
254 mm
Item Weight
658 g
Item Width
178 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
LeafCats
2228, 378
Topic
Literature
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