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Author Chapman, Jane, 1950- author

Title Comics and the world wars : a cultural record / Jane Chapman, Anna Hoyles, Andrew Kerr and Adam Sherif (University of Lincoln, UK)
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 217 pages) : illustrations
Series Palgrave studies in the history of media
Palgrave studies in the history of the media.
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""
""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
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Subject Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism.
Comic books, strips, etc. -- History -- 20th century.
Popular culture -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
Author Hoyles, Anna, 1978- author
Kerr, Andrew, 1986- author
Sherif, Adam, author
ISBN 1137273720 (electronic bk.)
9781137273727 (electronic bk.)