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Chapman / Kerr / Sherif

Comics and the World Wars

A Cultural Record

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-137-27371-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Erscheinungstermin: 09.07.2015
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This transnational, interdisciplinary study argues for the use of comics as a primary source. In recuperating currently unknown or neglected strips the authors demonstrate that these examples, produced during the World Wars, act as an important cultural record, providing, amongst other information, a barometer for contemporary popular thinking.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781137273710
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-137-27371-0
  • Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
  • Erscheinungstermin: 09.07.2015
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2015
  • Serie: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 431 g
  • Seiten: 217
  • Format (B x H x T): 145 x 222 x 18 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Foreword; Kent Worcester
1. Introduction
2. A Proposed Theory and Method for the Incorporation of Comic Books as Primary Sources
3. Haselden as Pioneer: Reflecting or Constructing Home Front Opinion?
4. Proto Comics as Trench Record: Anti-Heroism, Disparagement Humour and Citizens' Journalism
5. The Rise and Fall of the World War One Gullible Worker as a Counter Culture
6. Adjusting to Total War: US Propaganda, Commerce and Audience
7. The Cultural Construction of Women: Pin-Ups, Proactive Women and Representation in Combat
8. Collective Culture as Dynamic Record: The Daily Worker 1940-43
9. Conclusion