The contemporary comic book superhero / edited by Angela Ndalianis.
| Uniform Title: | Routledge research in cultural and media studies ;
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2009.
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| Series: | Routledge research in cultural and media studies ;
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| Physical Description: | xii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Part I: "That's the problem with you readers, you know all the plots": time, genre, and narration. Comic book superheroes: an introduction / Angela Ndalianis ; "Just men in tights": rewriting silver age comics in an era of multiplicity / Henry Jenkins ; The time of heroes: narrative, progress, and eternity in Miracleman / Paul Atkinson ; "Worlds within worlds": the role of superheroes in the Marvel and DC Universes / Jason Bainbridge ; Baroque mutants in the 21st century rethinking genre through the superhero / Saige Walton
- Part II: "We act normal, Mom! I want to be normal!": superbodies, identities, and fans. Secret identity politics / Scott Bukatman ; The superhero as labor: the corporate secret identity / Greg M. Smith ; When fangirls perform: the gendered fan identity in superhero comics fandom / Karen Healey ; Recruiting an Amazon: the collision of old world ideology and new world identity in Wonder Woman / Clare Pitkethly ; "Oy Gevalt!": a peek at the development of Jewish superheroines / Jennifer Dowling
- Part III: "I'm just a puppet who can see the strings": revisions, retellings, and auteurs. Entering the green: imaginal space in Black Orchid / Sallye Sheppeard ; The mild-mannered reporter: how Clark Kent surpassed Superman / Vanessa Russell ; It's a jungle in here: animal man, continuity issues, and the authorial death drive / Steven Zani ; Morrison's muscle mystery versus everyday reality... and other parallel worlds! / Martyn Pedler ; Enter the Aleph: superhero worlds and hypertime realities / Angela Ndalianis.