skip to main content
language
Primo Advanced Search
Primo Advanced Search Query Term
Primo Advanced Search Query Term
Primo Advanced Search prefilters
Simple Search

Comic books and the Cold War, 1946-1962 : essays on graphic treatment of communism, the code and social concerns. edited by Chris York and Rafiel York

York, Chris [1969-...] 2012

Available at mediatheque  Salon de lecture Jacques Kerchache  (BD GEN YOR )(GetIt)

  • Title:
    Comic books and the Cold War, 1946-1962 : essays on graphic treatment of communism, the code and social concerns. edited by Chris York and Rafiel York
  • Author: York, Chris [1969-...]
  • Publisher: Jefferson, North Carolina London : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2012
  • Subjects: Comics -- Aspect social -- 1945-1970;
    Comics -- Aspect politique -- 1945-1970;
    Guerre froide -- Dans les bandes dessinées -- États-Unis;
    Guerre froide -- Caricatures et dessins humoristiques -- États-Unis;
    Comics;
    Comics -- Thèmes, motifs;
    Dessinateurs de bandes dessinées -- États-Unis -- 1945-1970;
    Comic books, strips, etc -- Social aspects -- United States;
    Comic books, strips, etc -- Political aspects -- United States;
    Cold War -- Caricatures and cartoons;
    Cold War in popular culture
  • Includes: Copyright : Chris York et Rafiel York, 2012
    Bibliographie en fin de contributions. Index
  • lds03: Introduction : Frederic Wertham, containment, and comic books / Chris York and Rafiel York Lights, camera, action 101 : a brief lesson on how to see an atomic bomb / Nathan Atkinson Decrypting espionage comic books in 1950s America / Peter Lee "He was a living breathing human being" : Harvey Kurtzman's war comics and the "yellow peril" in 1950s containment culture / Christopher B. Field "I can pass right through solid matter!" : how The Flash upheld American values while breaking the speed limit / Frederick A. Wright Jack Kirby's challengers of the unknown : establishing order in an age of anxiety / Phillip Payne and Paul J. Spaeth Red menace on the moon : containment in space as depicted in comics of the 1950s / John Donovan Girls who sinned in secret and paid in public : romance comics, 1949-1954 / Jeanne Gardner Rebellion in Riverdale / Rafiel York The Amazon mystique : subverting Cold War domesticity in Wonder Woman comics, 1948-1965 / Ruth McClelland-Nugent The girls in white : nurse images in early Cold War era romance and war comics / Christopher J. Hayton and Sheila Hayton Horror camp : homoerotic subtext in EC Comics / Diana Green "Dedicated to the youth of America" : deviant narration in crime does not pay / Chris York Mad's guest writers / Lawrence Rodman Beyond the frontier : Turok, Son of Stone and the Native American in Cold War America / Chris York East Europeans in "this godless communism" / Alexander Maxwell The fantastic four : a mirror of Cold War America / Rafiel York
  • lds04: "Close analysis of individual titles--from atomic anxieties and the nuclear family to communist hysteria and social inequalities--manifests itself in the comic books of the era. By illuminating the complexities of mid-century graphic novels, this study demonstrates that postwar popular culture was far from monolithic in its representation of American values and beliefs"
  • Language: English
  • Creation Date: 2012
  • Identifier: 978-0-7864-4981-1 ; 0-7864-4981-0
  • Format: 1 volume (viii-223 pages) : illustrations, couverture illustrée en couleurs ; 23 cm
Links
Back to results list
Go to Previous pagePrevious Result  19 NextGo to Next page

Vous n'avez pas trouvé ce que vous cherchez ?

Searching Remote Databases, Please Wait

  • Searching for
  • inscope:("MQB"),scope:(AtoZ),scope:(ALEPH_MQB),scope:(DOC_AV),scope:("PRIMO"),scope:(NOUVEAUTES)
  • Show me what you have so far