Superhero Comics - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Chris GavalerSeries:Bloomsbury Comics StudiesPublish date:10/5/2017Pages:376
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781474226356ISBN-10:1474226353UPC:9781474226356Book Category:Literary Criticism, Comics & Graphic Novels, ArtBook Subcategory:Comics & Graphic Novels, Superheroes, Popular CultureSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.88 inchesWeight:0.577Product ID:SCAFFSZAMD
A complete guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Superhero Comics helps readers explore the most successful and familiar of comic book genres.
In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book reveals: -The history of superhero comics-from mythic influences to 21st century evolutions-Cultural contexts-from the formative politics of colonialism, eugenics, KKK vigilantism, and WWII fascism to the Cold War's transformative threat of mutually assured destruction to the on-going revolutions in African American and sexual representation
-Key texts-from the earliest pre-Comics-Code Superman and Batman to the latest post-Code Ms. Marvel and Black Panther
-Approaches to visual analysis-from layout norms to narrative structure to styles of abstraction
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781474226356ISBN-10:1474226353UPC:9781474226356Book Category:Literary Criticism, Comics & Graphic Novels, ArtBook Subcategory:Comics & Graphic Novels, Superheroes, Popular CultureSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.88 inchesWeight:0.577Product ID:SCAFFSZAMD
Chris Gavaler is Associate Professor of English at Washington and Lee University, USA. He is also the author of On the Origina of Superheroes: From the Big Bang to Action Comics No. 1 (2015) and Superhero Comics (2017) and Creating Comics (2021), both publishing by Bloomsbury.
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