• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Printing Terror: American Horror Comics as Cold War Commentary and Critique

Printing Terror: American Horror Comics as Cold War Commentary and Critique

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral Military History

ISBN10: 1526135922
ISBN13: 9781526135926
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Jan 28 2021
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Printing Terror places horror comics of the Cold War in dialogue with the anxieties of their age. It rejects the narrative of horror comics as inherently, and necessarily, subversive and explores, instead, the ways in which these texts manifest white male fears over America's changing sociological landscape. It examines two eras: the pre-CCA period of the 1940s up to 1954, and the post-CCA era to 1975. The book examines each of these periods through the lenses of war, gender, and race, demonstrating that horror comics at this time were centered on white male victimhood and the monstrosity of the gendered and/or racialised other. It is of interest to scholars of horror, comics studies, and American history.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

General Military History