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OverviewIn the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created in the bold, pulpy pages of comic books. The Ten-Cent Plague explores this cultural emergence and its fierce backlash while challenging common notions of the divide between high and low art. David Hajdu reveals how comics, years before the rock-and-roll revolution, brought on a clash between postwar children and their prewar parents. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics became the targets of a raging generational culture divide. They were burned in public bonfires, outlawed in certain cities, and nearly destroyed by a series of televised Congressional hearings. Yet their creativity, irreverence, and suspicion of authority would have a lasting influence. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David Hajdu , Stefan RudnickiPublisher: Findaway World Imprint: Findaway World Dimensions: Width: 12.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.159kg ISBN: 9781433274848ISBN 10: 1433274841 Publication Date: 01 April 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Mixed media product Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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