Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture : A Re-Examination of the Critic Whose Congressional Testimony Sparked the Comics Code.

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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Author / Creator: Beaty, Bart.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2005.
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