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

Imprint Madison, [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London, [England] : Associated University Presses, c1999.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  741.5 P967    ---  Available
Description 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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, pictoral 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.
Subject Comic books, strips, etc. -- Criticism and interpretation.
Comic books and children.
Censorship.
Added Author Lent, John A.
ISBN 0838637841

 
    
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