THE KEFAUVER COMIC BOOK HEARINGS AS SHOW TRIAL: DECENCY, AUTHORITY AND THE DOMINATED EXPERT.

The advent of comic books in the late 1930s almost immediately prompted an outcry over what many critics found to be their vulgar content. In the 1940s, psychiatrist Fredric Wertham entered this enduring debate with his many articles in popular periodicals and his popular book Seduction of the Innoc...

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Published in:	Cultural Studies Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 259 - 289
Main Author:	Park, David
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2002
Subjects:	Comic books, strips, etc. Juvenile delinquency Anticensorship activists Symbolism in politics Vulgarity in literature Show trials
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost