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Title: Superhero Comics
Description: A complete guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Superhero Comics helps readers explore the most successful and familiar of comic book genres. In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book reveals: ·The history of superhero comics-from mythic influences to 21st century evolutions·Cultural contexts-from the formative politics of colonialism, eugenics, KKK vigilantism, and WWII fascism to the Cold War's transformative threat of mutually assured destruction to the on-going revolutions in African American and sexual representation·Key texts-from the earliest pre-Comics-Code Superman and Batman to the latest post-Code Ms. Marvel and Black Panther·Approaches to visual analysis-from layout norms to narrative structure to styles of abstraction
Authors: Chris Gavaler
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Superheroes in literature, Comic books, strips, etc.--History and criticism, Superheroes in art, Superheroes--History, Heroic virtue
Categories: LITERARY CRITICISM / Comics & Graphic Novels, ART / Popular Culture, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Superheroes
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              Y: 2018
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