Fredric Wertham And the Critique of Mass Culture
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: November 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781578068197
Subjects: Social Science; Media Studies; Influence; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Popular Culture - General; Anthropology - Cultural; History & Criticism; Mass media; Mass media and culture
First sentence: Fredric Wertham opened a January 1953 article in the Saturday Review by observing, "At present this nation has more psychoanalystsand incidentally more murders and more comic booksthan any other two or three nations combined" (19533:16).