Superhero Comics (Bloomsbury Comics Studies)
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| Management number | 233447317 | Release Date | 2026/06/27 | List Price | US$11.38 | Model Number | 233447317 | ||
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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 Read more
| ASIN | B074P2N22R |
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| XRay | Not Enabled |
| ISBN13 | 978-1474226363 |
| Edition | 1st |
| Language | English |
| File size | 4.1 MB |
| Page Flip | Enabled |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Print length | 370 pages |
| Accessibility | Learn more |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Part of series | Bloomsbury Comics Studies |
| Publication date | October 5, 2017 |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
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