Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 217 pages) : illustrations |
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Palgrave studies in the history of media |
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Palgrave studies in the history of the media.
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Contents |
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 A Proposed Theory and Method for the Incorporation of Comic Books as Primary Sources""; ""3 Haselden as Pioneer: Reflecting or Constructing Home Front Opinion?""; ""4 Proto Comics as Trench Record: Anti-Heroism, Disparagement Humour and Citizens? Journalism""; ""5 The Rise and Fall of the First World War Gullible Worker as a Counterculture""; ""6 Adjusting to Total War: US Propaganda, Commerce and Audience"" |
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""7 The Cultural Construction of Women: Pin-Ups, Proactive Women and Representation in Combat""""8 Collective Culture as Dynamic Record: The Daily Worker, 1940?43""; ""9 Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
Summary |
This transnational, interdisciplinary study argues for the use of comics as a primary source. In recuperating currently unknown or neglected strips the authors demonstrate that these examples, produced during the World Wars, act as an important cultural record, providing, amongst other information, a barometer for contemporary popular thinking |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-207) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism.
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- History -- 20th century.
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Popular culture -- History -- 20th century.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Hoyles, Anna, 1978- author
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Kerr, Andrew, 1986- author
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Sherif, Adam, author
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ISBN |
1137273720 (electronic bk.) |
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9781137273727 (electronic bk.) |
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