EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest
Entertaining Comics Group (EC Comics) is perhaps best-known today for lurid horror comics like Tales from the Crypt and for a publication that long outlived the company’s other titles, Mad magazine. But during its heyday in the early 1950s, EC was also an early innovator in another genre of comics:...
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Rutgers University Press
[2019]
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| Zusammenfassung: | Entertaining Comics Group (EC Comics) is perhaps best-known today for lurid horror comics like Tales from the Crypt and for a publication that long outlived the company’s other titles, Mad magazine. But during its heyday in the early 1950s, EC was also an early innovator in another genre of comics: the so-called "preachies," socially conscious stories that boldly challenged the conservatism and conformity of Eisenhower-era America. EC Comics examines a selection of these works—sensationally-titled comics such as "Hate!," "The Guilty!," and "Judgment Day!"—and explores how they grappled with the civil rights struggle, antisemitism, and other forms of prejudice in America. Putting these socially aware stories into conversation with EC’s better-known horror stories, Qiana Whitted discovers surprising similarities between their narrative, aesthetic, and marketing strategies. She also recounts the controversy that these stories inspired and the central role they played in congressional hearings about offensive content in comics. The first serious critical study of EC’s social issues comics, this book will give readers a greater appreciation of their legacy. They not only served to inspire future comics creators, but also introduced a generation of young readers to provocative ideas and progressive ideals that pointed the way to a better America |
| Beschreibung: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Sep 2019) |
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| spelling | Whitted, Qiana Verfasser aut EC Comics Race, Shock, and Social Protest Qiana Whitted New Brunswick, NJ Rutgers University Press [2019] © 2019 1 online resource 24 color txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Comics Culture Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Sep 2019) Entertaining Comics Group (EC Comics) is perhaps best-known today for lurid horror comics like Tales from the Crypt and for a publication that long outlived the company’s other titles, Mad magazine. But during its heyday in the early 1950s, EC was also an early innovator in another genre of comics: the so-called "preachies," socially conscious stories that boldly challenged the conservatism and conformity of Eisenhower-era America. EC Comics examines a selection of these works—sensationally-titled comics such as "Hate!," "The Guilty!," and "Judgment Day!"—and explores how they grappled with the civil rights struggle, antisemitism, and other forms of prejudice in America. Putting these socially aware stories into conversation with EC’s better-known horror stories, Qiana Whitted discovers surprising similarities between their narrative, aesthetic, and marketing strategies. She also recounts the controversy that these stories inspired and the central role they played in congressional hearings about offensive content in comics. The first serious critical study of EC’s social issues comics, this book will give readers a greater appreciation of their legacy. They not only served to inspire future comics creators, but also introduced a generation of young readers to provocative ideas and progressive ideals that pointed the way to a better America In English EC Comics Firma (DE-588)1189707926 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1947-1954 gnd rswk-swf LITERARY CRITICISM / General bisacsh Comic books, strips, etc Moral and ethical aspects Literature and society United States History 20th century Social problems in literature Geschichte (DE-588)4020517-4 gnd rswk-swf Gesellschaftliches Bewusstsein (DE-588)4020630-0 gnd rswk-swf Ethnizität (DE-588)4220764-2 gnd rswk-swf Comiczeitschrift (DE-588)4808023-8 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 g Comiczeitschrift (DE-588)4808023-8 s Gesellschaftliches Bewusstsein (DE-588)4020630-0 s Geschichte 1947-1954 z 1\p DE-604 Ethnizität (DE-588)4220764-2 s EC Comics Firma (DE-588)1189707926 b Geschichte (DE-588)4020517-4 s 2\p DE-604 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813566337 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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