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Remembered Reading Memory, Comics and Post-War Constructions of British Girlhood Mel Gibson
mel gibson is a Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies at Northumbria University.
A reader’s history exploring the forgotten genre of girls’ comics Girls’ comics were a major genre from the 1950s onwards in Britain. The most popular titles sold between 800,000 and a million copies a week. However, this genre was slowly replaced by magazines which now dominate publishing for girls. Remembered Reading is a readers’ history which explores the genre, and memories of those comics, looking at how and why this rich history has been forgotten. The research is based around both analysis of what the titles contained and interviews with women about their childhood comic reading. In addition, it also looks at the other comic books that British girls engaged with, including humour comics and superhero titles. In doing so it looks at intersections of class, girlhood, and genre, and puts comic reading into historical, cultural, and educational context. Previously published in the series Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels
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€ 55,00 / £48.00 isbn 978 94 6270 030 7 June 2015 Paperback, 17 x 23 cm ca. 272 pp. Illustrated English Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels 3
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