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	Fredric Wertham St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
		Although Fredric Wertham is remembered primarily as the author of Seduction of the Innocent (1954),; an incisive, blistering attack on the violence and horror purveyed by the comic book industry, his research took him through this era of crime comics to the culture that violent movies and television created.
		Wertham's diagnostic technique was often used in conjunction with paintings by patients, such as the watercolors done by Zelda Fitzgerald when she was under treatment at the Phipps Clinic.
		Wertham's support for an intelligent use of the McNaughton's rule determining legal insanity, his understanding of how environmental forces shape individual responses, and his argument that violence and murder are diseases of society all persuaded him that violence is not innate, and so could be prevented.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419201292 (924 words)

	Fredric Wertham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		'''Dr. Fredric Wertham''' (March 20, 1895–November 29, 1981) was a German-American psychiatrist and crusading author who protested the purportedly harmful effects of mass media—comic books in particular—on the development of children.
		Wertham was born in Munich, Germany, studied in Munich, Erlangen, and London, and graduated from the University of Würzburg in 1921.
		Wertham always denied that he favored censorship or had anything against comic books in principle, and in the 1970s he focused His interest on the benign aspects of the comic fandom subculture; in His last book, The World of Fanzines (1974), he concluded that fanzines were "a constructive and healthy exercise of creative drives".
	fredric-wertham.iqnaut.net (837 words)

	Comic Art & Graffix Gallery Artist Biographies - Frederic Wertham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fredric Wertham M.D. In the middle 1940's a then unknown child psychologist began some studies on his patients.
		Released in 1954, "Seduction of the Innocent" was Wertham's epic tome on the effects of comics on children.
		Wertham wrote another book in 1958 called "Circle of Guilt" whose main claim was that Americans were starting to feel that they were less responsible for themselves and their actions, resulting in higher crime rates across the country.
	www.comic-art.com /bios-1/wertham1.htm (1288 words)

	Comics Code creator: Fredric Wertham
		Fredric Wertham was born in Munich, Germany in 1895.
		Dr. Fredric Wertham emigrated to the USA in 1922, where he became a respected psychiatrist and director of several New York psychiatric hospitals.
		In 1948, Dr. Wertham published an article stating that the crime and violence depicted in comics were an important factor in leading kids on the criminal path.
	www.lambiek.net /artists/w/wertham_fredric.htm (850 words)

	Review of Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture by Bart Beaty
		Beaty describes Wertham as a social reformer unwilling to adopt the pretense of scientific impartiality, and he obviously shares the conviction that impartiality is a ruse and is whole-hearted in his defense of Wertham.
		Wertham did look at the books, sometimes closely, and was capable of analyzing the images therein in terms of themselves and in terms of what his juvenile patients said about them.
		Wertham seems generally dismissive of the interaction of word and image and of the narrative content and context of the comics.
	www.english.ufl.edu /imagetext/archives/v3_1/reviews/eklund.shtml (1187 words)

	Broken Frontier \| The Portal for Quality Comics Coverage! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fredric Wertham and his book – the notorious “Seduction of the Innocent” – have often been blamed for the creation of the self-censoring Comics Code and the destruction of the amazing E.C. line of horror titles.
		Wertham had a few valid points to make, but he presented them in such a moronic fashion that it was easy for most people to dismiss them.
		Fredric Wertham considered Wonder Woman the “Lesbian counterpart of Batman.”; I think it says a lot about both the author and the time period that while Wertham described Batman’s relationship with Robin as being subtly homoerotic, he had no qualms about accusing Wonder Woman outright of being a man-hating dyke.
	brokenfrontier.com /lowdown/details.php?id=264&... (1803 words)

	The Comics Reporter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Wertham is blind to the beauty of an Al Williamson or Harvey Kurtzman page, and as a result his analysis of these comics is less faithful to the polysemic experiences of his patients and other real-life readers than it could be.
		Wertham and his associates were seeking to help their patients work through anxieties and other psychological issues, and would discuss, at great length, the way that the patients interpreted various media.
		Wertham and his assistants could literally walk through a comic book story with a patient panel by panel, inquiring about the patient's reaction to the work and the psychological issues that it raised, where, if they were discussing film or a radio show, it would be based more on recollection.
	www.comicsreporter.com /index.php/briefings/commentary/3619 (2770 words)

	Myths, Misinterpretations, and Misconceptions: Censorship in Comics
		Fredric Wertham (born Fredric Werthheimer) was born on March 20, 1895 in Nuremberg, Germany--a place that would later house the trials for several of the most brutal Nazi war criminals.
		In it, Wertham stated that crimes taking place in the fictional world of the comic were being copied by the children that read them.
		Wertham used "guilt by association" to further incriminate the publishers, despite the fact that the majority of children who read comics displayed perfectly normal and mild-mannered behavior.
	library.thinkquest.org /3177/gather/censor.html (2180 words)

	Dr. Fredric Wertham M.D. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fredric Wertham was born on March 20, 1895, in Nuremberg, Germany.
		Wertham's book was almost made into a film as well, but the deal fell through because he insisted that the details of the book remain the same.
		Wertham suggested that comics and the mass media were contributing to this.
	www.collectortimes.com /~comichistory/fredricw.html (692 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Funny Business
		That was the month a 53-year-old German-immigrant psychiatrist named Fredric Wertham convened a psychiatric symposium at which he charged that heavy comic-book reading had contributed to the delinquency of every troubled child he had ever studied.
		Wertham would state repeatedly that comic books were not the sole or even the primary factor in producing delinquents.
		Wertham saw only one solution: “the time has come to legislate these books off the newsstands and out of the candy stores.” Washington was listening.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/2001/5/2001_5_20.shtml (1475 words)

	The Comics Reporter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Wertham opted to dissect media clinically, by combining extensive interviews with a cross-section of individual subjects (a variant of the Freudian talking cure) with a "social orientation corresponding to the growing awareness of social responsibility in a changing world" (37).
		Wertham argued forcefully for a different way of doing things, and this is one of the reasons that he is so little read anymore.
		Wertham explicitly addressed Erich Fromm on the question of the sane society in ways that surprised me. Given his psychiatric training and left-leaning sympathies, I originally anticipated that Wertham would be sympathetic to Fromm, Marcuse and other postwar writers who were seeking to blend Freudianism and Marxism, but this was not the case at all.
	www.comicsreporter.com /index.php/briefings/commentary/3607 (2297 words)

	Comment: To The Batcloset (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The fashionable rebuttal to Wertham is to point out that a relationship between Batman and Robin would be paedophilia rather than a conventional homosexual relationship.
		However, for all that Wertham appears to have been a dangerous and misguided puritan with a deluded notion about the 'threat' of homosexuality, he didn't invent the gay reading of Batman any more than the TV show did.
		Wertham was a psychologist who based his work on what he learned from his patients.
	www.ninthart.com.cob-web.org:8888 /display.php?article=963 (1640 words)

	March, Fredric - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		MARCH, FREDRIC [March, Fredric] 1897-1975, American actor, b.
		Fredric D. Rosen to lead spin off of events division of Ziff-Davis; Teams with Chudnofsky to lead expansion of business.
		Fredric G. Reynolds Named President, CBS Television Stations Division.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-march-f1r.html (283 words)

	Sequart.com Columns > Sequential Culture #44: The End of Seduction, Act Three
		It was for this reason that Fredric Wertham was called in as a consultant for the committee, a clear indication of where the committee stood on the matter.
		Wertham also knew Willie as a troubled but redeemable boy who had taken care of his great-aunt in the absence of his parents, who were separated when he was just an infant.
		Wertham recalls the difficulty of Willie's case and how he and the clinic's staff had debated what role comics and Willie's broken family played in his problems.
	www.sequart.com /columns/?column=719 (2723 words)

	TIME.com: This Age of Violence -- Sep. 23, 1966 -- Page 1
		Wertham's thesis is that no murder, no rape, no senseless act of destruction is ever an iso lated, spontaneous event even when it is the product of a clearly psychotic mind.
		In this sense, writes Wertham, "we are the victims of the hydrogen bomb before it is ever used," because its very existence forces society to contemplate genocide.
		Some of Wertham's most provocative fire is directed at the clinical cult in literature and drama, in which human suffering is viewed with such detachment that it becomes trivial.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,842851,00.html (625 words)

	Amazon.com: Fredric Wertham And the Critique of Mass Culture: Books: Bart Beaty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture is an examination of Wertham’s career, providing a fresh perspective that re-interprets Wertham’s intellectual legacy, and challenges received notions about his assumed cultural conservatism.
		In particular, the project examines Wertham’s change of heart in the 1970s, when he began to claim that comics could be a positive influence in American society.
		Fredric Wertham opened a January 1953 article in the Saturday Review by observing, "At present this nation has more psychoanalystsand incidentally more murders and more comic booksthan any other two or three nations combined" (19533:16).
	www.amazon.com /Fredric-Wertham-Critique-Mass-Culture/dp/1578068193 (1001 words)

	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Crime Does Not Pay
		Fredric Wertham, in his 1954 anti-comics tome Seduction of the Innocent, noted the existence of what he considered a particularly vile genre of comic book.
		Wertham must not have seen the gangster movies of the 1930s and '40s, or noticed the crime pulp magazines of the same time.
		By that time, the anti-comics movement, with Wertham as a prominent spokesman, was in full swing.
	www.toonopedia.com /crimepay.htm (997 words)

	Dr. Fredric Wertham, M.D.: July 2005
		The female civic leader was only one of many who had given me a good idea of what I was up against, but I took courage from the fact that societies for the prevention of cruelty to children were formed many years after societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
		Slowly, and at first reluctantly, I have come to the conclusion that this chronic stimulation, temptation and seduction by comic books, both their content and their alluring advertisements of knives and guns, are contributing factors to many children's maladjustment.
		She was not released until the boy, who was held in custody all during this time, had signed a confession stating that he had owned and fired a.45-caliber pistol—which, incidentally, was never found.
	www.ep.tc /wertham/soti/blog/2005_07_01_fwertham_archive.html (7510 words)

	Sequart.com Columns > Sequential Culture #41: The End of Seduction, Act One
		Fredric Wertham was born in Munich, Germany, on 30 March 1895.
		Although Fredric Wertham is now the agreed-upon spelling of his name, Wertham also spelled his first name as both Fredrick and Frederick in his publications, especially his earlier work.
		Wertham testified that Fish was the most insane man he had ever encountered, but Fish was judged sane and executed anyway.
	www.sequart.com /columns/?column=492 (2657 words)

	Dr. Fredric Wertham, M.D.: Name calling
		Dr. Fredric Wertham, M.D. Tuesday, July 26, 2005
		These are all taken very seriously, read and followed carefully, and as a matter of fact incorporated into the social part of my research into the comic-book problem.
		Fredric Wertham, M.D. This blog is the result of seven years of scientific investigation conducted by myself, Dr. Fredric Wertham.
	www.ep.tc /wertham/soti/blog/2005/07/name-calling.html (583 words)

	Amazon.com: Seduction of the Innocent: Books: Fredric Wertham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Wertham has a good deal to say on the effect of graphical violence on children, some of it borne out by later studies (although these studies were focused on cartoons, not still images, we can assume the same principles apply).
		However, Wertham was definitely not a conservative and he certainly did not pursue a right wing agenda.
		Wertham was afraid that comic books might "define deviancy down" and that is exactly what happened with modern day comic books and certainly contemporary video games.
	www.amazon.com /Seduction-Innocent-Fredric-Wertham/dp/0848816579 (1973 words)

	Pulp and Dagger -- Editorial #68
		Into this situation came the Devil of our story -- one Dr. Fredric Wertham, a psychologist who had long argued there was a connection between pop culture and delinquency, and in 1954 published his book “The Seduction of the Innocent” claming a direct link between comics and the corruption of America’s young.
		Scores of publishers went out of business virtually overnight, and the comics that were left were watered down pabulum, not worth the ink they were printed with, ushering in a dark age of creative malaise that helped lead to comics being the marginalized, looked-down-upon medium we know today.
		As well, Wertham and his crowd, we are often left to infer, were social Nazis and the Comics Code was used to foster a racist, sexist, homophobic agenda.
	www.pulpanddagger.com /pulpmag/editorial68.html (1809 words)

	Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture, a fresh perspective on Wertham's career, reinterprets his intellectual legacy and challenges notions about his alleged cultural conservatism.
		In particular, the book examines Wertham's change of heart in the 1970s, when he began to claim that comics could be a positive influence in American society.
		The Wertham that emerges is a critic who was significantly more progressive and multifaceted than his reputation would suggest.
	www.upress.state.ms.us.cob-web.org:8888 /catalog/fall2005/fredric_wertham.html (250 words)

	Komix.it Fumetti @ 360° - The Comic Book Villain, Dr. Fredric Wertham, M.D.
		In this book Dr. Wertham stated that in his studies with children, he found comic books to be a major cause of juvenile delinquency.
		Wertham was called to testify at the hearings, as were other juvenile delinquent experts, representatives of the major comic companies, some of their advertisers and distributors, and the representatives from National Cartoonist Society.
		The Senate committee did not fully endorse Dr. Wertham's theories about the effect of comic books on children, since his studies were not done on the "complete environment", but only on juvenile delinquents.
	www.komix.it /modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=2072 (2373 words)

	Dr. Fredric Wertham, M.D.
		Fredric Wertham, M.D. Dr. Fredric Wertham, M.D. Tuesday, September 26, 2006
		It is children with beautiful minds like this, who can summarize The Grapes of Wrath by telling how the people in it "travel and travel and travel," whom we corrupt by throwing them to the 100-million-dollar enterprise of the comic-book industry.
		Most children do not engage in such violence, and certainly not from ingrained tendencies, and if they do, a good therapist would certainly analyze the causes for such violence early and help the child to understand and overcome it.
	www.ep.tc /wertham/soti/blog (1455 words)

	Batman Unmasked: Analysing a Cultural Icon by Will Brooker \| PopMatters Book Review
		Wertham was a New York state psychiatrist whose 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent sought to show a definitive link between comic books and juvenile delinquency, based upon his observations of young patients at a mental-health clinic he supervised in Harlem.
		Wertham's findings became a cause celebre in the media, and he was called upon to testify before a Senate subcommittee, causing comic-book publishers to unite and institute a self-censoring Comics Code as a pre-emptive measure to avoid a government crackdown on the industry.
		Hence Brooker's defense of Fredric Wertham is certain to raise more than a few hackles, but it's a necessary entry into the dialogue and not without merit.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/b/batman-unmasked.shtml (1359 words)

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