Working-Class Comic Book Heroes : Class Conflict and Populist Politics in Comics /

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

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Di Paolo, Marc (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Working class authors.
Comic books, strips, etc.
ART > Techniques > Drawing.
Superheroes in comics.
Populism in comics.
Social conflict in comics.
Working class in comics.
Comic books, strips, etc. > History and criticism.
Comics criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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