Loading...
Welcome
Sign up
Login
Browse Books
Deals
VIP
0
Loading...
Play Sample
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
Written by:
David Hajdu
Narrated by:
Stefan Rudnicki
Unabridged Audiobook
Play Free
Add to Cart - $22.95
Remove from Cart
Give as a gift
Ratings
Book
1
Narrator
Release Date
December 2008
Duration
11 hours 50 minutes
Summary
In 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.
Browse By Category
Literature
1 book added to cart
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Co...
David Hajdu
Subtotal
$22.95
View Cart
Continue Browsing
~~title~~
~~carousel-body~~
Back
Next
~~book-title~~
By: ~~author-single-string~~
~~tag-text~~
© Copyright 2011 - 2024 Storytel Audiobooks USA LLC. All Rights Reserved.