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Arguing comics : literary masters on a popular medium
Title
Arguing comics : literary masters on a popular medium / edited by Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester.
ISBN
1578066867 (cloth : alk. paper)
1578066875 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2004.
Physical Description
xxiii, 176 p. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 10, 2005
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. xx-xxiii) and index.
Contents
From "The tyranny of the pictorial" / Sidney Fairfield
From "The reign of the spectacular" / Annie Russell Marble
From "The humor of the colored supplement" / Ralph Bergengren
Introduction to Frans Masereel, Passionate journey: a novel told in 165 woodcuts / Thomas Mann
"The Krazy Kat that walks by himself" / Gilbert Seldes
"A foreword to Krazy" / e. e. cummings
"A mash note to Crockett Johnson" / Dorothy Parker
"Steig's cartoons: review of All embarrassed by William Steig" / Clement Greenberg
"Limits of common sense: review of Years of wrath: a cartoon history, 1931 1945 by David Low" / Clement Greenberg
"Notes on mass culture" / Irving Howe
"Masterpieces as cartoons" / Delmore Schwartz
"Woofed with dreams" / Robert Warshow
"Paul, the horror comics, and Dr. Wertham" / Robert Warshow
"The labyrinth of Saul Steinberg" / Harold Rosenberg
"Comic strips" / Manny Farber
"Comic strips" / Manny Farber
"Mickey Mouse and Americanism" / Walter J. Ong
"Bogey sticks for pogo men" / Walter J. Ong
From The mechanical bride : folklore of industrial man / Marshall McLuhan
"Comics: mad vestibule to TV" / Marshall McLuhan
From Love and death: a study in censorship / Gershon Legman
"The middle against both ends" / Leslie Fiedler
"Over the cliff" / Donald Phelps
"Reprise: 'Love and death'" / Donald Phelps
"C.L.R. James on comic strips" / C.L.R. James
"Letter to Daniel Bell" / C.L.R. James
"The myth of superman" / Umberto Eco.
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