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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.31
EAN num: 9780878055944
ISBN number: 0878055940
Label: University Press of Mississippi
Manufacturer: University Press of Mississippi
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 252
Printing Date: October 01, 1992
Publishing house: University Press of Mississippi
Sale Popularity Level: 1948926
Studio: University Press of Mississippi
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Between 1949 and 1955 Britain was swept by a rising tide of panic about 'American-style' or 'horror' comics. The British press cried out in alarm: 'Now Ban This Filth That Poisons Our Children,' 'Drive Out the Horror Comics.' As one frenzied columnist protested: 'I feel as though I have been trudging through a sewer. Here is a terrible twilight zone between sanity and madness . . . peopled by monsters, grave robbers, human flesh eaters.' A campaign against ghoulish comic books climaxed in an Act of Parliament making it illegal to publish or sell any material in comic form deemed to be 'harmful to children.'
But behind the facade of concern for the protection of children, another very different story lurked. This book explores the British campaign by asking some rather different questions. Who were the people at the heart of the anti-comics campaign? Why and how did the British Communist Party come to play a central role, and yet end up attacking a group of comics which were 'on their side' in assaulting their rationality of McCarthyism?
The British 'horror comics' campaign reveals the inadequacy of some conventional assessments of anti-media panics. In showing a curious gap between the private concerns of the campaigners and their public rhetoric, A Haunt of Fears, originally published in Britain in 1983, raises serious questions about the state of British culture during this era.
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Before video games, movies and TV, comic books were the bee in the proto-Tippers' collective bonnets. This book is an admirable endeavor to summarise the campaign against the comics in Britan, which actually led to them being banned.
The comics themselves (of which three are reproduced in full and many others in part) seem almost quaint now; the campaigners seem as silly as their intellectual descendents do today. The work is well-structured and never dull, but the writing lets it down a bit - there's a weird undergraduate feel throughout. Still, worth a look for comic book or pop culture fans.
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