TY - JOUR
T1 - Seducing the innocent
T2 - Fredric wertham and the falsifications that helped Condemn comics
AU - Tilley, Carol L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2012 by the University of Texas Press.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham and his 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent serve as historical and cultural touchstones of the anticomics movement in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s. Although there have been persistent concerns about the clinical evidence Wertham used as the basis for Seduction, his sources were made widely available only in 2010. This article documents specific examples of how Wertham manipulated, overstated, compromised, and fabricated evidence-especially that evidence he attributed to personal clinical research with young people-for rhetorical gain.
AB - Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham and his 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent serve as historical and cultural touchstones of the anticomics movement in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s. Although there have been persistent concerns about the clinical evidence Wertham used as the basis for Seduction, his sources were made widely available only in 2010. This article documents specific examples of how Wertham manipulated, overstated, compromised, and fabricated evidence-especially that evidence he attributed to personal clinical research with young people-for rhetorical gain.
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U2 - 10.1353/lac.2012.0014
DO - 10.1353/lac.2012.0014
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84881028715
SN - 2164-8034
VL - 47
SP - 383
EP - 413
JO - Information and Culture
JF - Information and Culture
IS - 3
ER -