Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture: A Re-Examination of the Critic Whose Congressional Testimony Sparked the Comics Code
Too often remembered solely as the psychiatrist and cultural critic whose testimony in Senate subcommittees sparked the creation of the Comics Code, Fredric Wertham was a far more complex man. Author Bart Beaty traces the evolution of Wertham's attitudes toward popular culture and reassesses his place in the debate about pop culture's effects on youth and society.\ When The Seduction of the Innocent was published in 1954, Wertham (1895-1981) became instantly known as an authority on child...
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\ \ Ch. 1\ From Freud to social psychiatry\ 18\ \ \ Ch. 2\ Mass culture in the twentieth century\ 48\ \ \ Ch. 3\ American concerns about a mass society\ 74\ \ \ Ch. 4\ Wertham and the critique of comic books\ 104\ \ \ Ch. 5\ Television and media effects\ 167\ \
