Peanuts and American Culture

Essays on Charles M. Schulz's Iconic Comic Strip

Peter W.Y. Lee (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

211 Seiten

2019
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7144-4 (ISBN)

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Focusing on the Peanuts comic strip's Cold War roots, this collection of essays explores existentialism, the reshaping of the nuclear family, the Civil Rights Movement, 1960s counterculture, feminism, psychiatry and fear of the bomb. Chapters focus on the development of characters that became American icons.

Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz insisted good ol' Charlie Brown and his friends were neither "great art" nor "significant." Yet Schulz's acclaimed daily comic strip--syndicated in thousands of newspapers over five decades--brilliantly mirrored tensions in American society during the second half of the 20th century.

Focusing on the strip's Cold War roots, this collection of new essays explores existentialism, the reshaping of the nuclear family, the Civil Rights Movement, 1960s counterculture, feminism, psychiatry and fear of the bomb. Chapters focus on the development of Lucy, Peppermint Patty, Schroeder, Franklin, Shermy, Snoopy and the other characters that became American icons.

Peter W.Y. Lee has written many articles on film and comic books. He lives in Simi Valley, California.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Not a Peanut Gallery

“Good grief, I thought it was the fallout”: Charlie Brown

and the Long ’50s (Cliff Starkey)

Two Different Worlds: Adults, Children and Their

Relationship (Olaf Meuther)

Listening to Charlie Brown: Musicians and Music Making

as Cold War Era Critique (Tom Zlabinger)

To Hell with Franklin: Spilling Ink on the Color Line (Peter W.Y. Lee)

Be a Good Spaceman, Charlie Brown: Charles M. Schulz

and the Space Race (Peter W.Y. Lee)

Little Girls with Big Voices: How Charles Schulz’s Girl Characters Challenge the Patriarchy in Which They Are Trapped (Erin C. Callahan)

“The Doctor Is IN”: Gender, Space and Power in Lucy’s Psychiatric Booth (Catherine W. Zipf)

No Room for Normality: Shermy and Postwar Childhood (Peter W.Y. Lee)

Cold War Snoopy, or, Do Beagles Dream of Electric Bunnies? (Jessica K. Brandt)

About the Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	24.07.2019
Zusatzinfo	notes, bibliographies, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	286 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4766-7144-3 / 1476671443
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-7144-4 / 9781476671444
Zustand	Neuware