The social marketplace for new and used books.

Get started

Learn to sell
Learn to buy
Buy textbooks
Sign up
Buy a giftcard
For the authors

Support

Help
Track a shipment
Terms of use
Privacy policy
Cookies policy

Company

About us
Work with us
Give feedback
Categories

Contact us

Fast delivery with

Safe payments by

Visa
Mastercard
Vipps
Klarna

© 2026 Bookis AS

English

Norway

Region is based on IP address

Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture

Paperback • 2005 • Norwegian Bokmål

Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture

By Bart Beaty

0 Ratings • 0.0 of 5

‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌

About the book

Too often remembered solely as the psychiatrist and cultural critic whose testimony in Senate subcommittees sparked the creation of the Comics Code, Fredric Wertham was a far more complex man. Author Bart Beaty traces the evolution of Wertham's attitudes toward popular culture and reassesses his place in the debate about pop culture's effects on youth and society. When The Seduction of the Innocent was published in 1954, Wertham (1895-1981) became instantly known as an authority on child psycho...Show more

Book details

ISBN

9781578068197

Publisher

Jackson, MS, USA : University Press of Mississippi

Published year

2005

Language

Norwegian Bokmål

Original title

Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture

Format

Paperback

Shippping and returns

Shipping

Used books are shipped by the seller. Expected delivery after package is sent is 2-4 days.

Returns

Contact the seller after delivery.

Reviews · 0

0 Ratings • 0.0 of 5

You might also like

The He-Man Effect How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood

The He-Man Effect How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood

Brian "Box" Brown

The Assault on Truth Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory

The Assault on Truth Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere

Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere

Hillary Chute

Censorship and Propaganda in World War I

Censorship and Propaganda in World War I

Eberhard Demm

Custodians of the Internet

Custodians of the Internet

Tarleton Gillespie

Outsiders

Outsiders

Howard S. Becker

Propaganda and persuasion

Propaganda and persuasion

Jennifer Anderson

Mythomania

Mythomania

Peter Conrad

Queer

Queer

Dr. Meg-John Barker

We Told You So Comics as Art

We Told You So Comics as Art

Tom Spurgeon

Comics Feeeever!! Uncover the Power of Comics in Art and Design

Comics Feeeever!! Uncover the Power of Comics in Art and Design

The Double Life of Paul De Man

The Double Life of Paul De Man

Evelyn Barish

The Playboy

The Playboy

Chester Brown

The Book of Woe the DSM and the unmaking of psychiatry

The Book of Woe the DSM and the unmaking of psychiatry

Gary Greenberg

The silver age of DC comics

The silver age of DC comics

A Culture of Conspiracy Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America

A Culture of Conspiracy Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America

Michael Barkun

The Law of Superheroes

The Law of Superheroes

James Daily

Paying for It

Paying for It

Chester Brown

A critical approach to youth culture

A critical approach to youth culture

Pamela Erwin

Eric Stanton

Eric Stanton

Stop Forgetting to Remember The Autobiography of Walter Kurtz

Stop Forgetting to Remember The Autobiography of Walter Kurtz

Peter Kuper

Dirty Discourse: Sex and Indecency In Broadcasting

Dirty Discourse: Sex and Indecency In Broadcasting

Robert L.

Beautiful Things In Popular Culture

Beautiful Things In Popular Culture

Alan McKee

Comic Book Nation The Transformation of Youth Culture in America

Comic Book Nation The Transformation of Youth Culture in America

Bradford W. Wright

Germaine Greer : The Beautiful Boy

Germaine Greer : The Beautiful Boy

Germaine Greer

The Culture of Critique An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-century Intellectual and Political Movements

The Culture of Critique An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-century Intellectual and Political Movements

Kevin B. MacDonald

The Twilight of American Culture

The Twilight of American Culture

Morris Berman

Age Of Propaganda: The Everyday Use And Abuse Of Persuasion

Age Of Propaganda: The Everyday Use And Abuse Of Persuasion

Anthony Pratkanis

The Culture Industry Selected Essays on Mass Culture

The Culture Industry Selected Essays on Mass Culture

Theodor W. Adorno

Seeing is Believing How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties

Seeing is Believing How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties

Peter Biskind

Seduction of the Innocent

Seduction of the Innocent

Fredric Wertham

Media Culture Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics Between the Modern and the Postmodern

Media Culture Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics Between the Modern and the Postmodern

Douglas Kellner

The Disappearance of Childhood

The Disappearance of Childhood

Neil Postman

Porn: Myths for the Twentieth Century

Porn: Myths for the Twentieth Century

Robert J. Stoller

Consumer Culture and Postmodernism

Consumer Culture and Postmodernism

Mike Featherstone

Psychoanalysis, A theory in crisis

Psychoanalysis, A theory in crisis

Marshall Edelson

A Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign

A Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign

Martin Barker

Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture

Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture

Robert Staughton

Serial Selves

Serial Selves

Frederik Byrn Kohlert

Deviant Behavior

Deviant Behavior

Erich Goode