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Global perspectives on Tarzan : from king of the jungle to international icon /

This collection seeks to understand the long-lasting and global appeal of Tarzan: Why is a story about a feral boy, who is raised by apes in the African jungle, so compelling and so adaptable to different cultural contexts and audiences?

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wannamaker, Annette (Editor ), Abate, Michelle Ann, 1975- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2012.
Colección:Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; 38.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Michelle Ann Abate, An axe in the hands of a burly negro cleft the captain from forehead to chin: Tarzan of the apes and the American urban jungle
  • Annette Wannamaker, Now Tarzan make war!: World War II B-movies, profits and propaganda
  • Ken Cerniglia, Tarzan swings onto Disney's Broadway
  • Jon C. Stott, Return to Tarzan: a Canadian childhood hero reconsidered
  • Richard Ivan Jobs, Tarzan under attack: Youth, comics, and cultural reconstruction in postwar France
  • Ronie Parciack, Contending simulacra: Tarzan in postcolonial India
  • Alon Raab and Eli Eshed, With a star of David he swings: Tarzan in the holy land
  • Clare Mulcahy, We would each like to be like Tarzan: re-examining female readers of Burroughs' Tarzan series
  • Michelle Smith, On the origin of men: savage boyhood in Tarzan of the apes
  • Aaron Clayton, Evolution and race on the island of Caspak: how Tarzan and T-rex decode manhood in the comic that time forgot.