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Overview
Overview
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
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Gavaler, Chris
- ISBN: 9781474226349
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.40 x 1.00
- Number Of Pages: 376
- Publication Year: 2017
Language:
English