Author: Matthew H. Gore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692261446
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency public comic book hearings took place on April 21, 22, June 4, 1954 in New York. They focused on particularly graphic "crime and horror" comic books of the day, and their potential impact on juvenile delinquency. This volume contains the full text of the difficult to find United States government document reporting the testimony before the subcommittee with the addition of the original text of the Comics Code. Changes made to the code in the 1970s and 1980s are not included.
Primary Sources on Comic Books and Juvenile Delinquency
Author: Matthew H. Gore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692261446
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency public comic book hearings took place on April 21, 22, June 4, 1954 in New York. They focused on particularly graphic "crime and horror" comic books of the day, and their potential impact on juvenile delinquency. This volume contains the full text of the difficult to find United States government document reporting the testimony before the subcommittee with the addition of the original text of the Comics Code. Changes made to the code in the 1970s and 1980s are not included.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692261446
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency public comic book hearings took place on April 21, 22, June 4, 1954 in New York. They focused on particularly graphic "crime and horror" comic books of the day, and their potential impact on juvenile delinquency. This volume contains the full text of the difficult to find United States government document reporting the testimony before the subcommittee with the addition of the original text of the Comics Code. Changes made to the code in the 1970s and 1980s are not included.
The Juvenile Delinquency: The Comic Book Panic of the 1950s-U.S.
Author: Bedford/St. Martin's
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1319169554
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
The goal of this document collection is to consider how a worried generation of parents, experts, and government officials thought about the relationship between violence in the media and juvenile delinquency. The primary source documents will show why a great many Americans believed that culture caused crime, as well as the arguments against this assumption. Students are guided through their analysis of the primary sources with an author-provided learning objective, central question, and historical context.
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1319169554
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
The goal of this document collection is to consider how a worried generation of parents, experts, and government officials thought about the relationship between violence in the media and juvenile delinquency. The primary source documents will show why a great many Americans believed that culture caused crime, as well as the arguments against this assumption. Students are guided through their analysis of the primary sources with an author-provided learning objective, central question, and historical context.
Juvenile Delinquency (comic Books)
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comic books and children
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Investigates influence of crime and horror comic books on juvenile delinquency. Includes discussion of publishers' distribution practices. Hearings were held in NYC.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comic books and children
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Investigates influence of crime and horror comic books on juvenile delinquency. Includes discussion of publishers' distribution practices. Hearings were held in NYC.
The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder
Author: Robert Corn-Revere
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110712994X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The book explores the importance of free speech in America by telling the stories of its chief antagonists - the censors.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110712994X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The book explores the importance of free speech in America by telling the stories of its chief antagonists - the censors.
Comic Book Nation
Author: Bradford W. Wright
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801874505
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A history of comic books from the 1930s to 9/11.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801874505
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A history of comic books from the 1930s to 9/11.
Seduction of the Innocent
Author: Fredric Wertham
Publisher: Main Road Books
ISBN: 9781596830004
Category : Comic books and children
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Dr. Wertham was senior psychiatrist for the Department of Hospitals in New York City. This book, thoroughly documented by facts and cases, gives the substance of Dr. Wertham's expert opinion on the effects that comic books have on the minds and behavior of children who come in contact with them. Reprint of the 1954 edition with a new comprehensive Introduction by James E. Reibman, Ph.D.
Publisher: Main Road Books
ISBN: 9781596830004
Category : Comic books and children
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Dr. Wertham was senior psychiatrist for the Department of Hospitals in New York City. This book, thoroughly documented by facts and cases, gives the substance of Dr. Wertham's expert opinion on the effects that comic books have on the minds and behavior of children who come in contact with them. Reprint of the 1954 edition with a new comprehensive Introduction by James E. Reibman, Ph.D.
Comic Books and Juvenile Deliquency
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comic books and children
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comic books and children
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Seduction of the Innocent
Author: Fredric Wertham
Publisher: New York : Rinehart
ISBN:
Category : Child rearing
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The landmark early study of the power of the comic book, tracing many of the social challenges of young people, from illiteracy to delinquent impulses, to the widespread practice of comic book reading.
Publisher: New York : Rinehart
ISBN:
Category : Child rearing
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The landmark early study of the power of the comic book, tracing many of the social challenges of young people, from illiteracy to delinquent impulses, to the widespread practice of comic book reading.
Juvenile Delinquency (comic Books)
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comic books and children
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Investigates influence of crime and horror comic books on juvenile delinquency. Includes discussion of publishers' distribution practices. Hearings were held in NYC.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comic books and children
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Investigates influence of crime and horror comic books on juvenile delinquency. Includes discussion of publishers' distribution practices. Hearings were held in NYC.
Comic Books and Juvenile Delinquency. Part of the Investigation of Juvenile Delinquency in the U.S. Interim Report
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description