Bending steel : modernity and the American superhero / Aldo J. Regalado.
"Bending Steel examines the historical origins and cultural significance of Superman and his fellow American crusaders. Cultural historian Aldo J. Regalado asserts that the superhero seems a direct response to modernity, often fighting the interrelated processes of industrialization, urbanization, i...
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Language: | English |
Published: |
Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2015]
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Physical Description: | x, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Format: | Book |
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"Bending Steel examines the historical origins and cultural significance of Superman and his fellow American crusaders. Cultural historian Aldo J. Regalado asserts that the superhero seems a direct response to modernity, often fighting the interrelated processes of industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and capitalism that transformed the United States from the early nineteenth century to the present. Reeling from these exciting but rapid and destabilizing forces, Americans turned to heroic fiction as a means of explaining national and personal identities to themselves and to the world. In so doing, they created characters and stories that sometimes affirmed, but other times subverted conventional notions of race, class, gender, and nationalism."-- Provided by publisher. |
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Call Number: | PN6725.R42 B4 2015 PN6725 .R44 2015 |
Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-272) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781628462210 1628462213 |