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Killer Bodies : The Rise and Fall of Bad Girl Comics.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crawford, Joseph.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Killer Bodies offers a history of the single most critically-derided subgenre in American superhero comics: the 'bad girl' comics of the 1990s, which chronicled the blood-soaked adventures of barely-dressed and improbably-proportioned action heroines for an audience of adolescent boys.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Secret Origins: The Birth of the "Bad Girl" Genre
- 2. Killer Bodies: "Bad Girls" and the American Comics Industry
- 3. Revolution Girl Style: "Bad Girl" Comics and Third-Wave Feminism
- 4. Girl Power: Postfeminist "Bad Girl" Comics
- 5. After the Fall: "Bad Girl" Comics Since 1997
- Conclusion: How Bad Were the "Bad Girls"?
- Works Cited
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-9788-4199-X
- 9781978841994
- OCLC:
- 1543213857
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