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Of Comics and Men : A Cultural History of American Comic Books /
This is a seminal study of the evolution and development of the American comic from the 1930s to the present day. The book is divided into three sections covering the history, an overview of the distribution and consumption of American comic books, and an account of the popularisation and legitimisa...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2010.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Seventy years' worth of images: From comics to comic books (1842-1936) ; The beginnings of an industry : comics magazines (1936-1940) ; Comic books at war (1940-1945) ; Ever more : the apogee and the fall (1945-1954) ; Decline and rebirth (1955-1962) ; The age of innovation (1963-1969) ; Research and development by trial and error (1969-1979) ; The recovery of the 1980s (1980-1993) ; The end of a century and the beginning of a new century (1993- )
- Producers and consumers: Production ; The business of comic books ; The creators ; The readers
- A difficult consecration: Calls for censorship ; Internal consecration ; External consecration ; Conclusion
- Appendix: Self-regulating codes of the comic book industry.