Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture : A Re-Examination of the Critic Whose Congressional Testimony Sparked the Comics Code

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 3(15) From Freud to Social Psychiatry 18(30) Mass Culture in the Twentieth Century 48(26) American Concerns About a Mass Society 74(30) Wertham and the Critique of Comic Books 104(63) Television and Media Effects 167(28) Conclusion 195(14) Works Cited 209(16) Index 225