Atomic Comics
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"Atomic Comics", fackbok av den amerikanske historieprofessorn Ferenc Morton Szasz som beskriver hur kärnkraften har skildrats i amerikanska och japanska serier alltsedan 20-talet. Inte minst ur vetenskaplig och social synvinkel, militär samt fredlig användning och så vidare.
Szasz tar bland annat upp serier som "Atomic Man", "Flash Gordon", "Spider-Man", "Barefoot Gen", "Astro Boy" och "Kuroi Ame ni Utarete" ("Black Rain"). Boken har ett flertal illustrationer.
Utgivningsfakta
- Ferenc Morton Szasz: "Atomic Comics - Cartoonists Confront the Nuclear World", University of Nevada Press, 2012.
Innehåll
| List of Illustrations | xi | |
| Preface | xiii | |
| Acknowledgments | xvii | |
| 1 | Introduction | |
| Part I - Before Hiroshima | 9 | Comic Strips Confront the Subatomic World: The Turn of the Century to the Early 1930s |
| 22 | The Comics and the Fissioned Atom: The Mid-1930s to August 6, 1945 | |
| Part II - The Initial Reaction: 1945-Early 1960s | 43 | Coming to Grips with the Atom: Early Atomic Superheroes |
| 67 | Atomic Comic Utopias, Espionage and the Cold War | |
| Part III - Atomic Comics Change Direction: The Mid-1050s to the Present Day | 89 | American Underground Comix, Political and International Cartoonists, and the Rise of the Japanese Manga |
| 116 | The Never-Ending Appeal of Atomic Adventure Tales | |
| 133 | Conclusion | |
| Notes | 137 | |
| Bibliography | 155 | |
| Index | 167 |
