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# Printing Terror: American Horror Comics as Cold War Commentary and Critique

**Author:** Goodrum, Michael                        A Smith, Philip
**Price:** $130.00
**Category:** Manga
**Age Rating:** 13+
**Genres:** graphic-novel
**Pages:** 328
**Publisher:** Manchester University Press
**Publication Date:** 2021-01-01

## Description

|JB|<p>Printing terror places horror comics of the Cold War in dialogue with the historical trauma of World War II and Vietnam, the rise of feminism, and the growth of the Civil Rights Movement. It rejects the narrative, prevalent throughout scholarship to date, of horror comics as inherently, and necessarily, subversive. Horror comics attracted serious and sustained criticism from censorious forces, but this book demonstrates how these texts were part of the symptoms rather than the cause of br

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