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Champions of the Oppressed

Superhero Comics, Popular Culture and Propaganda in America During World War II

Christopher Murray author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Hampton Press Inc

Published:30th Jun '11

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This book explores the relationship between American superhero comics and progaganda during World War II. It contends that superhero comics were an important means by which the war was represented to the American people and argues that the ideological links between superhero comics and propaganda resides in the imagery and rhetoric they both employed in order to fashion, maintain and reshape conceptions of identity, power and morality for poltical purposes

ISBN: 9781612890036

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306 pages