KS205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Comics Code Authority, Anthropomorphism, Ec Comics
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Camp banality or artificiality when appreciated for its humour, especially when unintentional and outlandish. Underground comics: were initially created not for profit eight pagers, crude comics often dealing with adult topics, such as pornography, predominantly sexual in nature, could be folded up to fit in a wallet. Samizdat the secret publication and distribution of government-banned literature in the ussr; the literature produced by this system; an underground press. Roadrunner and wile e. coyote: the reliance on technology to reach success, american ideals of never giving up. Psychedelic of or pertaining to, or generating hallucinations, distortions of perception, and, occasionally, states resembling psychosis. Counterculture: alienation from consumer culture, civil rights movement, stifling suburbanized superficiality, mass media celebrations of normality , panic and emptiness of cold war paranoia. Dramatic irony a situation wherein audience members viewing a play understand more than the characters do about their own plight; the concept can be applied to other non- theatrical dramatic situations.
