Author : Christopher Murray
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1612890032
Champions of the Oppressed? by Christopher Murray Pdf
This book explores the relationship between American superhero comics and progaganda during World War II. It contends that superhero comics were an important means by which the war was represented to the American people and argues that the ideological links between superhero comics and propaganda resides in the imagery and rhetoric they both employed in order to fashion, maintain and reshape conceptions of identity, power and morality for poltical purposes