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Comic strips and consumer culture, 1890-1945 / Ian Gordon.

Contending that comic strips contributed to the expansion of a mass consumer culture driven by visual images, Ian Gordon shows how, in addition to embellishing a wide array of goods with personalities, the comics themselves increasingly promoted consumerist values and upward mobility. He details how...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gordon, Ian, 1954- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998.
Series:	Laboratory animal pocket reference series
Subjects:	Comic books, strips, etc. > United States > History and criticism. Popular culture > United States American literature > History and criticism Laboratory animals Cats.

Table of Contents:

1. From Caricature to Comic Strips: The Shaping of Comic Art as Commodity
2. Comic Strips, National Culture, and Marketing: The Breadth of the Form
3. Comic Art and the Commodification of African American Typographies: The Limits of the Form
4. Comic Strips as Culture: From National Phenomenon to Everyday Life
5. Envisioning Consumer Culture: "Gasoline Alley" and "Winnie Winkle," 1920-1945
6. The Comic Book: Comics as an Independent Commodity, 1939-1945
Epilogue: The Persistence of Comic Art as Commodity
App. Circulation and Syndication Data
Table 1. Circulation of Newspapers Examined, 1901-1913
Table 2. Growth in Population and Newspaper Circulation, 1903-1913
Table 3. Syndication of Comic Strips, 1903-1913
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. From Caricature to Comic Strips: The Shaping of Comic Art as Commodity
2. Comic Strips, National Culture, and Marketing: The Breadth of the Form
3. Comic Art and the Commodification of African American Typographies: The Limits of the Form
4. Comic Strips as Culture: From National Phenomenon to Everyday Life
5. Envisioning Consumer Culture: "Gasoline Alley" and "Winnie Winkle," 1920-1945
6. The Comic Book: Comics as an Independent Commodity, 1939-1945
Epilogue: The Persistence of Comic Art as Commodity
App. Circulation and Syndication Data
Table 1. Circulation of Newspapers Examined, 1901-1913
Table 2. Growth in Population and Newspaper Circulation, 1903-1913
Table 3. Syndication of Comic Strips, 1903-1913
Table 4. Distribution of "Buster Brown," 1903-1908
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

Comic strips and consumer culture, 1890-1945 / Ian Gordon.

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