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The superhero reader
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- Creator
- edited by Charles Hatfield, Jeet Heer, and Kent Worcester
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013]
- Physical Details
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- xxii, 319 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781621039549, 1621039544, 9781617038068, 1617038024, 1617038067, 9781617038037, 9781617038020, 1617038032
- OCLC
- ocn815383697, ocn826530845, on1024281247
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Comics predecessors / Peter Coogan -- Men of tomorrow / Gerard Jones -- Gladiator / Philip Wylie -- The great comic book heroes / Jules Feiffer -- The comics and the super state / Walter Ong -- The Superman conceit / Fredric Wertham -- The great women superheroes / Trina Robbins -- Fandom and authorship / Will Brooker -- Literary formulas / John G. Cawelti -- Crowds of superheroes / Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence -- The epic hero and pop culture / Roger B. Rollin -- Masked heroes / Richard Reynolds -- The revisionary superhero narrative / Geoff Klock -- Jack Kirby and the Marvel aesthetic / Charles Hatfield -- Navigating infinite Earths / Karin Kukkonen -- A song of the urban superhero / Scott Bukatman -- Wonder Woman / Gloria Steinem -- Invisible Girl / Lillian Robinson -- Love will bring you to your gift / Jennifer Stuller -- Batman, deviance and camp / Andy Medhurst -- Color them black / Adilifu Nama -- Comic book masculinity / Jeffrey Brown -- The punisher as revisionist superhero western / Lorrie Palmer -- Death-defying heroes / Henry Jenkins -- List of conrtibutors -- Index