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Working-class comic book heroes : class conflict and populist politics in comics /

The first book to tackle the blue-collar hero and working-class creators.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Di Paolo, Marc (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; WORKING-CLASS COMIC BOOK HEROES; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction Cultivating Empathy: The Subversive Potential of Populist Comic Books; PART I. REPRESENTATIONS OF CLASS AND POPULISM IN HORROR AND SCIENCE FICTION COMICS; Past Lives Memory and the Meaning of Work in The Walking Dead; You Can Be Whatever the Hell You Want Heroism and the Female Working Class in Preacher; Alan Moore and Anarchist Praxis in Form Bibliography, Remediation, and Aesthetic Form in V for Vendetta and Black Dossier
  • Truth, Justice, and the Socialist Way? The Politics of Grant Morrison's SupermanPART II. MARVEL COMICS, NETFLIX, AND THE WORKING-CLASS SUPERHERO; From the Streets to the Swamp Luke Cage, Man-Thing, and the 1970s Class Issues of Marvel Comics; "It's Just Us Here" Daredevil and the Trauma of Big Power; Jack Kirby The Not-So-Secret Identity of the Thing; Marvel's Shamrock Haunted Heroine, Working Woman, Guardian of the Galaxy; The Working-Class PI (AKA Jessica Jones) Alias as a Narrative of Quiet Desperation; About the Contributors; Index