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Superhero Reader

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ISBN-10: 1617038067

ISBN-13: 9781617038068

Edition: 2013

Authors: Charles Hatfield, Jeet Heer, Kent Worcester, Will Brooker, Jeffrey A. Brown

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Despite their commercial appeal and cross-media reach, superheroes are only recently starting to attract sustained scholarly attention. This groundbreaking collection brings together essays and book excerpts by major writers on comics and popular culture.While superhero comics are a distinct and sometimes disdained branch of comics creation, they are integral to the development of the North American comic book and the history of the medium. For the past half-century they have also been the one overwhelmingly dominant market genre. The sheer volume of superhero comics that have been published over the years is staggering. Major superhero universes constitute one of the most expansive…    
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Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Publication date: 6/30/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 342
Size: 5.90" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Historical Considerations
Comics Predecessors
Men of Tomorrow
Gladiator
The Great Comic Book Heroes
The Comics and the Super State
The Superman Conceit
The Great Women Superheroes
Fandom and Authorship
Theory and Genre
Literary Formulas
Crowds of Superheroes
The Epic Hero and Pop Culture
Masked Heroes
The Revisionary Superhero Narrative
Jack Kirby and the Marvel Aesthetic
Navigating Infinite Earths
A Song of the Urban Superhero
Culture and Identity
Wonder Woman
Invisible Girl
Love Will Bring You to Your Gift
Batman, Deviance and Camp
Color Them Black
Comic Book Masculinity
The Punisher as Revisionist Superhero Western
Death-Defying Heroes
List of Contributors
Index
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