Drawing on the theories of cultural studies, this study investigates the “Golden Age” of comic books in context of the broader power struggles of their time. It traces the comic-book medium’s cultural roots, its rise to popularity, and its persistent struggles for meanings, cultural space, and an audience. Characters, genres, stereotypes, myths, styles, reflexive devices, and many other narrative elements are discussed as encodings of ideology within the systems of production, consumption, and textuality.Basierend auf den Theorien der Cultural Studies untersucht diese Studie das "goldene Zeitalter" der Comic-Hefte im Kontext der Machtkämpfe ihrer Zeit. Sie zeichnet die kulturellen Wurzeln des Mediums, seine Erfolgsgeschichte und sein andaue...
Comic books in America are produced and consumed in a particular environment. This environment has b...
grantor: University of TorontoThis study offers an ethnographic account of one comic book ...
grantor: University of TorontoThis study offers an ethnographic account of one comic book ...
This thesis details and analyzes the history of the Comics Code of 1954 and its impact on American c...
This thesis accounts for the influence on the mainstream American comic book industry of a group of ...
This is a cultural history of American comic books. It explores how political, international, econom...
The main concern of this thesis is the role that comics have in our society. Its goal is to present ...
In this thesis I examine internal and external factors influencing the cultural understanding of dif...
The purpose of this Master’s thesis is to study how the comics have been evaluated and debated in th...
The comic book is a product of mass culture. It got deeply rooted in American and Western European p...
The purpose of this Master’s thesis is to study how the comics have been evaluated and debated in th...
This thesis accounts for the influence on the mainstream American comic book industry of a group of ...
Cultural legitimacy has eluded comics until recent times. By observing the history of comics in the ...
In this article I discuss the impact of self-awareness and metacritical tendencies within the texts...
Comic books in America are produced and consumed in a particular environment. This environment has b...
Comic books in America are produced and consumed in a particular environment. This environment has b...
grantor: University of TorontoThis study offers an ethnographic account of one comic book ...
grantor: University of TorontoThis study offers an ethnographic account of one comic book ...
This thesis details and analyzes the history of the Comics Code of 1954 and its impact on American c...
This thesis accounts for the influence on the mainstream American comic book industry of a group of ...
This is a cultural history of American comic books. It explores how political, international, econom...
The main concern of this thesis is the role that comics have in our society. Its goal is to present ...
In this thesis I examine internal and external factors influencing the cultural understanding of dif...
The purpose of this Master’s thesis is to study how the comics have been evaluated and debated in th...
The comic book is a product of mass culture. It got deeply rooted in American and Western European p...
The purpose of this Master’s thesis is to study how the comics have been evaluated and debated in th...
This thesis accounts for the influence on the mainstream American comic book industry of a group of ...
Cultural legitimacy has eluded comics until recent times. By observing the history of comics in the ...
In this article I discuss the impact of self-awareness and metacritical tendencies within the texts...
Comic books in America are produced and consumed in a particular environment. This environment has b...
Comic books in America are produced and consumed in a particular environment. This environment has b...
grantor: University of TorontoThis study offers an ethnographic account of one comic book ...
grantor: University of TorontoThis study offers an ethnographic account of one comic book ...