SOSC 3992 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Moral Panic, Estes Kefauver, Davie Fulton

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 3992
• Professor: Allyson Lunny

Document Summary

Illegal to print, distribute, sell, etc a crime comic: crime comics- popular representation that comes into scrutiny, 1950-60"s crucial. Comic books: newspaper comic strips are reformulated as a funny book format, various genres, detective, action, superhero, war, jungle- ex. White princess of the jungle pic on slide 8: trying to rescue the native who is tied up in the corner of the picture, she is probably there because of colonialism, crime. Criticisms against crime comics: glamourized crime and violence, criminals as heroes, police easily duped, colouration of illustration seductive to children, although usually ending in a moral lesson, good vs evil theme not strong enough. 1954: comic book industry"s mechanisms for self-regulating the portrayal of sex, violence and antisocial activity in american comic books, sexual perversion or any influence to same is strictly forbidden, kefauver senate subcommittee"s interim report, comic books and juvenile.