The Superhero Reader

The Superhero Reader
Author :
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages : 342
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781617038037
ISBN-13 : 1617038032
Rating : 4/5 (032 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Superhero Reader by : Charles Hatfield

Download or read book The Superhero Reader written by Charles Hatfield and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from Will Brooker, Jeffrey A. Brown, Scott Bukatman, John G. Cawelti, Peter Coogan, Jules Feiffer, Charles Hatfield, Henry Jenkins, Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence, Gerard Jones, Geoff Klock, Karin Kukkonen, Andy Medhurst, Adilifu Nama, Walter Ong, Lorrie Palmer, Richard Reynolds, Trina Robbins, Lillian Robinson, Roger B. Rollin, Gloria Steinem, Jennifer Stuller, Fredric Wertham, and Philip Wylie Despite their commercial appeal and cross-media reach, superheroes are only recently starting to attract sustained scholarly attention. This groundbreaking collection brings together essays and book excerpts by major writers on comics and popular culture. While superhero comics are a distinct and sometimes disdained branch of comics creation, they are integral to the development of the North American comic book and the history of the medium. For the past half-century, they have also been the one overwhelmingly dominant market genre. The sheer volume of superhero comics that have been published over the years is staggering. Major superhero universes constitute one of the most expansive storytelling canvases ever fashioned. Moreover, characters inhabiting these fictional universes are immensely influential, having achieved iconic recognition around the globe. Their images and adventures have shaped many other media, such as film, videogames, and even prose fiction. The primary aim of this reader is twofold: first, to collect in a single volume a sampling of the most sophisticated commentary on superheroes, and second, to bring into sharper focus the ways in which superheroes connect with larger social, cultural, literary, aesthetic, and historical themes that are of interest to a great many readers both in the academy and beyond.


The Superhero Reader Related Books

The Superhero Reader
Language: en
Pages: 342
Authors: Charles Hatfield
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-14 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

With contributions from Will Brooker, Jeffrey A. Brown, Scott Bukatman, John G. Cawelti, Peter Coogan, Jules Feiffer, Charles Hatfield, Henry Jenkins, Robert Je
The Superhero Reader
Language: en
Pages: 343
Authors: Charles Hatfield
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A full exploration of the history, politics, and aesthetics of the superhero genre
Super Black
Language: en
Pages: 201
Authors: Adilifu Nama
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-01 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, which reveals how blac
Dangerous
Language: en
Pages: 417
Authors: Shannon Hale
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-10 - Publisher: A&C Black

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Maisie 'Danger' Brown needs excitement. When she wins a harmless-sounding competition to go to astronaut boot camp, that's exactly what she gets . . . But she n
Superheroes!
Language: en
Pages: 708
Authors: Laurence Maslon
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-01 - Publisher: Crown Archetype

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Wonder Woman, the Avengers, the X-Men, Watchmen, and more: the companion volume to the PBS documentary series of the sam