Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid - Couverture souple

Livre 4 sur 9: Studies in Comics and Cartoons

Meyer, Christina

 
9780814255605: Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid
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ISBN 10 : 0814255604 ISBN 13 : 9780814255605
Editeur : Ohio State University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Emerging mass culture in nineteenth-century America was in no small way influenced by the Yellow Kid, one of the first popular, serial comic figures circulating Sunday supplements. Though comics existed before, it was through the growing popularity of full-color illustrations printed in such city papers as Inter Ocean (Chicago) and the World (New York) and the implementation of regular, weekly publications of the extra sections that comics became a mass-produced, mass-distributed staple of American consumerism. It was against this backdrop that one of the first popular, serial comic figures was born: the Yellow Kid.

Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid offers a new take on the emergence of the Yellow Kid comic figure, looking closely at the mass appeal and proliferation of the Yellow Kid across different media. Christina Meyer identifies the aesthetic principles of newspaper comics and examines the social agents—advertising agencies, toy manufacturers, actors, retailers, and more—responsible for the Yellow Kid’s successful career. In unraveling the history of comic characters in capitalist consumer culture, Meyer offers new insights into the creation and dissemination of cultural products, reflecting on modern artistic and merchandising phenomena.

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À propos de l?auteur

Christina Meyer is Visiting Professor in American Studies at the University of Hamburg, Germany. She is the author of War and Trauma Images in Vietnam War Representations.

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Éditeur
Ohio State University Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0814255604
ISBN 13 
9780814255605
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
264
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ISBN 10 :  0814214169 ISBN 13 :  9780814214169
Editeur : Ohio State University Press, 2019
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