Pulp Empire
A Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism
$45.18
- Hardcover
344 pages
- Release Date
12 July 2021
Summary
In the 1940s and ’50s, comic books were some of the most popular—and most unfiltered—entertainment in the United States. Publishers sold hundreds of millions of copies a year of violent, racist, and luridly sexual comics to Americans of all ages, until a 1954 Senate investigation led to a censorship code that nearly destroyed the industry. But this was far from the first time the US government actively involved itself with comics—it was simply the most dramatic manifestation of a long, strang…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780226350554 |
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| ISBN-10: | 022635055X |
| Author: | Paul S. Hirsch |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Imprint: | University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 344 |
| Release Date: | 12 July 2021 |
| Weight: | 1.06kg |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“I’ll be frank: I love this book. Hirsch’s writing is crisp and exciting and it’s a joy to see the history of comic books and the Cold War United States told from such a fresh angle. This fun, sharp book is one I’ll be thinking about for a while.”– “Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States”
Paul S. Hirsch
Paul S. Hirsch is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas, Austin and an inaugural fellow at the Robert B. Silvers foundation.
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