Comics and the World Wars [electronic resource] : A Cultural Record /
Chapman, Jane L.author.
Sherif, Adam.author.
Hoyles, Anna.author.
Kerr, Andrew.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""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 First World War Gullible Worker as a Counterculture""; ""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""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
World War, 1939-1945.
World history.
Civilization-History.
History, Modern.
Military history.
Popular works.
History of World War II and the Holocaust.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Cultural History.
Modern History.
History of Military.
Popular Science, general.