Korean War Comic Books - Couverture souple

Rifas, Leonard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0786443960 ISBN 13 : 9780786443963

Editeur : McFarland & Co Inc, 2021

Synopsis

Comic books have presented fictional and fact-based stories of the Korean War, as it was being fought and afterward. Comparing these comics with events that inspired them offers a deeper understanding of the comics industry, America's "forgotten war," and the anti-comics movement, championed by psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, who criticized their brutalization of the imagination. Comics--both newsstand offerings and government propaganda--used fictions to justify the unpopular war as necessary and moral. This book examines the dramatization of events and issues, including the war's origins, germ warfare, brainwashing, Cold War espionage, the nuclear threat, African Americans in the military, mistreatment of POWs, and atrocities.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Leonard Rifas has been a cartoonist, comic book editor, founding proprietor of the educational comic book company EduComics, and a pioneering comics scholar. He teaches at Seattle Central College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McFarland & Co Inc
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0786443960
• ISBN 13: 9780786443963
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 345
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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