Comics and the World Wars

Comics and the World Wars: A Cultural Record

by Chapman, Jane L.

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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

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  • Full title :Comics and the World Wars : A Cultural Record

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

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2015

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
  • Place of Publication:Basingstoke
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2015

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  • Description:Online-Ressource (232 Seiten)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781137273710, 1137273712
  • oclc:on1020652770

Table of 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 Combat8 Collective Culture as Dynamic Record: The Daily Worker, 1940?43 -- 9 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Writers

Chapman, Jane L. Hoyles, Anna Kerr, Andrew Sherif, Adam

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