Comic books and the cold war, 1946-1962
Subtitle: essays on graphic treatment of communism, the code and social concerns
By: edited by Chris York and Rafiel York
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780786449811
Subjects: Cold War; Comic books, strips; Caricatures and cartoons; Cold War in popular culture
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Frederic Wertham, containment, and comic books / Chris York and Rafiel York; title: Lights, camera, action 101 : a brief lesson on how to see an atomic bomb / Nathan Atkinson; title: Decrypting espionage comic books in 1950s America / Peter Lee; title: "He was a living breathing human being" : Harvey Kurtzman's war comics and the "yellow peril" in 1950s containment culture / Christopher B. Field; title: "I can pass right through solid matter!" : how The Flash upheld American values while breaking the speed limit / Frederick A. Wright; title: Jack Kirby's challengers of the unknown : establishing order in an age of anxiety / Phillip Payne and Paul J. Spaeth; title: Red menace on the moon : containment in space as depicted in comics of the 1950s / John Donovan; title: Girls who sinned in secret and paid in public : romance comics, 1949-1954 / Jeanne Gardner; title: Rebellion in Riverdale / Rafiel York; title: The Amazon mystique : subverting Cold War domesticity in Wonder Woman comics, 1948-1965 / Ruth McClelland-Nugent; title: The girls in white : nurse images in early Cold War era romance and war comics / Christopher J. Hayton and Sheila Hayton; title: Horror camp : homoerotic subtext in EC Comics / Diana Green; title: "Dedicated to the youth of America" : deviant narration in crime does not pay / Chris York; title: Mad's guest writers / Lawrence Rodman; title: Beyond the frontier : Turok, Son of Stone and the Native American in Cold War America / Chris York; title: East Europeans in "this godless communism" / Alexander Maxwell; title: The fantastic four : a mirror of Cold War America / Rafiel York.