Full Description
This transnational, interdisciplinary study argues for the use of comics as a primary source. In recuperating currently unknown or neglected strips the authors demonstrate that these examples, produced during the World Wars, act as an important cultural record, providing, amongst other information, a barometer for contemporary popular thinking.
Contents
Foreword; Kent Worcester
1. Introduction
2. A Proposed Theory and Method for the Incorporation of Comic Books as Primary Sources
3. Haselden as Pioneer: Reflecting or Constructing Home Front Opinion?
4. Proto Comics as Trench Record: Anti-Heroism, Disparagement Humour and Citizens' Journalism
5. The Rise and Fall of the World War One Gullible Worker as a Counter Culture
6. Adjusting to Total War: US Propaganda, Commerce and Audience
7. The Cultural Construction of Women: Pin-Ups, Proactive Women and Representation in Combat
8. Collective Culture as Dynamic Record: The Daily Worker 1940-43
9. Conclusion
