Seducing the Innocent: Fredric Wertham and the Falsifications That Helped Condemn Comics.
A literary criticism is presented of the book "Seduction of the Innocent," by the psychiatrist Fredric Wertham. Particular focus is given to the book's role in the movement against comics in the U.S. during the 1940s and 1950s. It discusses the book's call to limit the sale of comics to children for...
| Publicado en: | Information & Culture Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 383 - 414 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of Texas Press
2012
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