Korean War comic books
Leonard Rifas
- Resource Type:
- E-Book
- Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2021]
- Copyright:
- ©2021
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- Summary:
- "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."-- [Provided by publisher]
- Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Realism, harm, and responsibility
- The business
- Strips
- World War II comic books
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Critics
- Origins of the Korean War
- Spies
- African Americans
- Germs
- Brainwashing
- POW!
- Griping against the war
- Atrocities
- Politics
- The bomb
- Subversive comics
- The Korean War in comics since 1953
- Conclusion.
- Author/Creator:
- Rifas, Leonard , author
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
- Main Work:
- Other Related Resources:
- Print version: Korean War comic books [by Rifas, L.] (Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2021] — ISBN 9780786443963; LCCN 2020050986; OCLC Number 1221015442)
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- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-316) and index.
Description based on: Print version record. - Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 339 pages) : illustrations
- Digital Characteristics:
- text file
- Call Numbers:
- PN6725 .R55 2021eb
- ISBNs:
- 9781476640488 (electronic bk.)
1476640483 (electronic bk.)
9780786443963 (paperback) [Invalid]
0786443960 (paperback) [Invalid] - OCLC Numbers:
- 1252422964