Fredric Wertham and the critique of mass culture /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2005
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- From Freud to social psychiatry
- Mass culture in the twentieth century
- American concerns about a mass society
- Wertham and the critique of comic books
- Television and media effects.
