Christina Meyer: Producing Mass Entertainment

Cover: 9780814255605 | Producing Mass Entertainment | The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid

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Emerging mass culture in nineteenth-century America was in no small way influenced by the Yellow Kid, one of the first popular, serial comic figures circulating Sunday supplements. Though comics existed before, it was through the growing popularity of full-color illustrations printed in such city papers as Inter Ocean (Chicago) and the World (New York) and the implementation of regular, weekly publications of the extra sections that comics became a mass-produced, mass-distributed staple of American consumerism. It was against this backdrop that one of the first popular, serial comic figures was born: the Yellow Kid.

Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid offers a new take on the emergence of the Yellow Kid comic figure, looking closely at the mass appeal and proliferation of the Yellow Kid across different media. Christina Meyer identifies the aesthetic principles of newspaper comics and examines the social agents-advertising agencies, toy manufacturers, actors, retailers, and more-responsible for the Yellow Kid's successful career. In unraveling the history of comic characters in capitalist consumer culture, Meyer offers new insights into the creation and dissemination of cultural products, reflecting on modern artistic and merchandising phenomena.

Über den Autor

Christina Meyer is Visiting Professor in American Studies at the University of Hamburg, Germany. She is the author of War and Trauma Images in Vietnam War Representations.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika , Importe
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780814255605
ISBN-10:	0814255604
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Meyer, Christina
Hersteller:	The Ohio State University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Christina Meyer
Erscheinungsdatum:	20.11.2019
Gewicht:	0,434 kg