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Death, Disability, and the Superhero : The Silver Age and Beyond /

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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Alaniz, Jose (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (400 pages).
ISBN:9781626740655