Pulp Demons: International Dimensions of the Postwar Anti-comics Campaign

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John A. Lent
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1999 - 306 sivua
Pulp Demons is the first systematic study of the fallout of the American controversy abroad. Eight distinguished scholars survey the historical roots, chief players, and sociocultural/political implications of anti-comics campaigns in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Using primary data gathered through interviews, content analyses, and searches of private papers and public documents, they fashion a fascinating account overall of one of the most prolonged, wide-ranging, and vicious attacks ever leveled at a mass medium, enveloping a mix of odd bedfellows that included the Communist Party, anticommunist groups, religious denominations, the cartoonists, and others.
 

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The Comics Debates Internationally Their Genesis Issues and Commonalities
9
Comic Book Censorship in the United States
42
Or How the British Horror Comics Campaign Only Just Succeeded
69
Against Dirt and Rubbish Pictorial Idiotism and Cultural Analphabetism
93
Crime Comics Parliament and the Hegemony of the Middle Class in Postwar Canada
129
Comics Discourse in Australia and Fredric Werthams Seduction of the Innocent
155
Reverberations in Asia
179
Fredric WerthamThe Sad Case of the Unhappy Humanist
215
A Social Psychiatrist Characterizes Crime Comic Books and Media Violence as Public Health Issues
234
United States Codes
269
Extract of an Investigation on Comics Carried Out In 195253
280
Criminal Code Provisions of Canada Incorporating the Fulton BillBill 10
287
Philippine Codes
288
Contributors
294
Index
296
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