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LEADER: 01579cam a22002898a 4500
001 2009025381
003 DLC
005 20100219084613.0
008 090622s2010 msu b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2009025381
020 $a9781604732672 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
041 1 $aeng$hfre
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aPN6725$b.G33 2010
082 00 $a741.5/973$222
100 1 $aGabilliet, Jean-Paul.
240 10 $aDes Comics et des hommes.$lEnglish
245 10 $aOf comics and men :$ba cultural history of American comic books /$cJean-Paul Gabilliet ; translated by Bart Beaty and Nick Nguyen.
260 $aJackson :$bUniversity Press of Mississippi,$cc2010.
263 $a0908
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aFrom comics to comic books (1842 1936) -- The beginnings of an industry: comics magazines -- (1936 1940) -- Comic books at war (1940 1945) -- Ever more the apogee and the fall (1945 1954) -- Decline and rebirth (1955 1962) -- The age of innovation (1963 1969) -- Research and development by trial and error -- (1969 1979) -- The recovery of the 1980s (1980 1993) -- The end of a century and the beginning of a new century (1993- ) production -- The business of comic books -- The creators -- The readers -- Calls for censorship -- Internal consecration -- External consecration -- Conclusion -- Self-regulating codes of the comic book industry.
650 0 $aComic books, strips, etc.$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism.
700 1 $aBeaty, Bart.
700 1 $aNguyen, Nick.