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15%OFFBradford W. Wright - Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America - 9780801874505 - V9780801874505
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Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America

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Description for Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America Paperback. Comic Book Nation is at once a serious study of popular culture and an entertaining look at an enduring American art form. Num Pages: 360 pages, 53, 53 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AKLC; HBTB; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 177 x 26. Weight in Grams: 670.
As American as jazz or rock and roll, comic books have been central in the nation's popular culture since Superman's 1938 debut in Action Comics #1. Selling in the millions each year for the past six decades, comic books have figured prominently in the childhoods of most Americans alive today. In Comic Book Nation, Bradford W. Wright offers an engaging, illuminating, and often provocative history of the comic book industry within the context of twentieth-century American society. From Batman's Depression-era battles against corrupt local politicians and Captain America's one-man war against Nazi Germany to Iron Man's Cold ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
360
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801874505
SKU
V9780801874505
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Ref
99-1

About Bradford W. Wright
Bradford W. Wright is an associate professor with the University of Maryland University College-European Division.

Reviews for Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America
A winner... a book that is trenchant, crisply written and absolutely jargon-free, with plenty of enthusiasm but no idolatry-and great fun to read... There should be a place for Comic Book Nation on the bookshelf of anyone who ever read comics for fun as a kid or has taken them seriously as an adult.
Dennis Drabelle Washington Post Book ... Read more

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