SELF-REGULATION THROUGH DISTRIBUTION.
In 1954, comic books faced a public controversy over allegedly immoral content and simultaneously suffered a sharp decline in sales. The major publishers responded to both of these problems with the implementation of a code of censorship that enabled and justified aggressive self-regulation. Althoug...
| Published in: | Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film & Television no. 75; pp. 21 - 38 |
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University of Texas Press
Spring2015
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