Death, disability, and the superhero : the Silver Age and beyond /

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The Thing. Daredevil. Captain Marvel. The Human Fly. Drawing on DC and Marvel comics from the 1950s to the 1990s and marshaling insights from three burgeoning fields of inquiry in the humanities--disability studies, death and dying studies, and comics studies--José Alaniz seeks to redefine the cont...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Alaniz, José (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014.
Subjects:
Comic books, strips, etc. > History and criticism.
Death in comics.
Disabilities in comics.
People with disabilities in comics.
Body image in comics..
Graphic novels > History and criticism.
Romans graphiques > Histoire et critique.
ART > Techniques > Drawing.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS > History & Criticism.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS > Superheroes.
People with disabilities in comics
Disabilities in comics
Death in comics
Comic books, strips, etc.
Graphic novels
Comics criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Comics criticism.
Critiques de bandes dessinées et de romans graphiques.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : "Unmasked at last!" : death, disability and the super-body
  • Supercrip: disability, visuality, and the Silver Age superhero
  • "What can we ever have to fear from a blind man?!!": disability, Daredevil, and passing
  • Borderline cases: gender, race, and the "disabled" superhero
  • Dismodernism and "The world's strangest heroes"
  • How not to be a superhero: narrative prosthetics and the human fly
  • The dismal trade: death, the market, and Silver Age superheroes
  • Facing death in Strikeforce: Morituri
  • Death, bereavement, and "Funeral for a friend"
  • Conclusion: vital lies, vital truths.

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