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--Jose Alaniz seeks to redefine the conte...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alaniz, Jose (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Graphic novels.
Comic books, strips, etc.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS > Superheroes.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS > History & Criticism.
ART > Techniques > Drawing.
Graphic novels > History and criticism.
Body image in comics..
People with disabilities in comics.
Disabilities in comics.
Death in comics.
Comic books, strips, etc. > History and criticism.
Comics criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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--Jose Alaniz seeks to redefine the contemporary understanding of the superhero. Beginning in the Silver Age, the genre increasingly challenged and complicated its hypermasculine, quasi-eugenicist biases through such disabled figures as Ben Grimm/The Thing, Matt Murdock/Daredevil, and the Doom Patrol. Alaniz traces how the superhero beca.
Physical Description:1 online resource (400 pages).
ISBN:9781626740655

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