Champions of the Oppressed: Superhero Comics, Popular Culture and Propaganda in America During World War II

by Christopher Murray

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This book explores the relationship between American superhero comics and progaganda during World War II. It contends that superhero comics were an important means by which the war was represented to the American people and argues that the ideological links between superhero comics and propaganda resides in the imagery and rhetoric they both employed in order to fashion, maintain and reshape conceptions of identity, power and morality for poltical purposes
  • ISBN13 9781612890036
  • Publish Date 1 May 2011 (first published 1 April 2011)
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Hampton Press Inc
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 306
  • Language English