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The contemporary comic book superhero / edited by Angela Ndalianis.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; 19.
- Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; 19
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comic books, strips, etc--United States--History and criticism.
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Heroes in art.
- Heroes in literature.
- Superheroes in art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (314 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Over the last several decades, comic book superheroes have multiplied and, in the process, become more complicated. In this cutting edge anthology an international roster of contributors offer original research and writing on the contemporary comic book superhero, with occasional journeys into the film and television variation. As superheroes and their stories have grown with the audiences that consume them, their formulas, conventions, and narrative worlds have altered to follow suit, injecting new, unpredictable and more challenging characterizations that engage ravenous readers who incre
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Part I "That's the Problem With You Readers, You Know All the Plots": Time, Genre, and Narration; 1 Comic Book Superheroes: An Introduction; 2 'Just Men in Tights': Rewriting Silver Age Comics in an Era of Multiplicity; 3 The Time of Heroes: Narrative, Progress, and Eternity in Miracleman; 4 'Worlds Within Worlds': The Role of Superheroes in the Marvel and DC Universes; 5 Baroque Mutants in the 21st Century?: Rethinking Genre Through the Superhero
- Part II "We Act Normal, Mom! I Want to Be Normal!": Superbodies, Identities, and Fans6 Secret Identity Politics; 7 The Superhero as Labor: The Corporate Secret Identity; 8 When Fangirls Perform: The Gendered Fan Identity in Superhero Comics Fandom; 9 Recruiting an Amazon: The Collision of Old World Ideology and New World Identity in Wonder Woman; 10 'Oy Gevalt!': A Peek at the Development of Jewish Superheroines; Part III "I'm Just a Puppet Who Can See the Strings" Revisions, Retellings, and Auteurs; 11 Entering the Green: Imaginal Space in Black Orchid
- 12 The Mild-Mannered Reporter: How Clark Kent Surpassed Superman13 It's a Jungle in Here: Animal Man, Continuity Issues, and the Authorial Death Drive; 14 Morrison's Muscle Mystery Versus Everyday Reality . . . and Other Parallel Worlds!; 15 Enter the Aleph: Superhero Worlds and Hypertime Realities; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-21394-1
- 1-282-07477-6
- 9786612074776
- 0-203-87309-2
- 9780203873090
- OCLC:
- 476267316
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