Fredric Wertham And The Critique Of Mass Culture
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: November 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781578068104
Subjects: Popular Culture - General; Mass media and culture; Influence; Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Sociology; Media Studies; History & Criticism; Mass media; Anthropology - Cultural
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).