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Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture : a Re-Examination of the Critic Whose Congressional Testimony Sparked the Comics Code.

Too often remembered solely as the psychiatrist and cultural critic whose testimony in Senate subcommittees sparked the creation of the Comics Code, Fredric Wertham was a far more complex man. Author Bart Beaty traces the evolution of Wertham's attitudes toward popular culture and reassesses hi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beaty, Bart (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2005]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: From Freud To Social Psychiatry; Chapter Two: Mass Culture In The Twentieth Century; Chapter Three: American Concerns About A Mass Society; Chapter Four: Wertham And The Critique Of Comic Books; Chapter Five: Television And Media Effects; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index. 
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