Comics and the world wars : a cultural record

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The work Comics and the world wars : a cultural record represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Comics and the world wars : a cultural record

Title remainder

a cultural record

Statement of responsibility

Jane Chapman, Anna Hoyles, Andrew Kerr and Adam Sherif, University of Lincoln, UK

Creator

• Chapman, Jane, 1950-

Contributor

• Kerr, Andrew, 1986-
• Hoyles, Anna, 1978-
• Sherif, Adam
• EBSCOhost

Author

• Kerr, Andrew, 1986-
• Sherif, Adam
• Hoyles, Anna, 1978-

Subject

• World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects
• Comic books, strips, etc. -- History -- 20th century
• Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism
• Popular culture -- History -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

Comics and the World Wars argues for the use of comics as a primary source by offering a highly original argument that such examples produced during the World Wars act as a cultural record. Recuperating currently unknown or neglected strips, this work demonstrates how these can be used for the study of both world wars. Representing the fruits of over five years team research, this book reveals how sequential illustrated narratives used humour as a coping mechanism and a way to criticise authority, promoted certain forms of behaviour and discouraged others, represented a deliberately inclusive educational strategy for reading wartime content, and became a barometer for contemporary popular thinking.--

Member of

• Palgrave studies in the history of the media

Assigning source

Provided by Publisher

Cataloging source

NhCcYBP

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

• Palgrave studies in the history of the media
• Ebsco eBook Collection