Comic Book Legal Defense Fund at Comic-Con International Friday July 25, 2014 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT Room 30CDE sched.co/1jyvnyU How did a pioneering neuroscientist become one of the 20th centurys most notorious censors? In 1954, psychiatrist Fredric Wertham published the popular book Seduction of the Innocent, which inspired such moral panic that comics were placed on trial by the U.S. Senate. Werthams efforts, although presented as science, were actually carefully manipulated to discredit the medium. The results nearly destroyed the comics artform in the United States. Carol Tilley, the professor whose recent research helped debunk Wertham once and for all, will take you back in time, behind the scenes, as she shares some of the little-known stories of Dr. Werthams war on comics. #SDCC #SDCC14 #Comiccon
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:20:00 +0000
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