| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction : "Unmasked at last!" : death, disability and the super-body -- Supercrip: disability, visuality, and the Silver Age superhero -- "What can we ever have to fear from a blind man?!!": disability, Daredevil, and passing -- Borderline cases: gender, race, and the "disabled" superhero -- Dismodernism and "The world's strangest heroes" -- How not to be a superhero: narrative prosthetics and the human fly -- The dismal trade: death, the market, and Silver Age superheroes -- Facing death in Strikeforce: Morituri -- Death, bereavement, and "Funeral for a friend" -- Conclusion: vital lies, vital truths |
| Summary |
The Thing. Daredevil. Captain Marvel. The Human Fly. Drawing on DC and Marvel comics from the 1950s to the 1990s and marshaling insights from three burgeoning fields of inquiry in the humanities--disability studies, death and dying studies, and comics studies--José Alaniz seeks to redefine the contemporary understanding of the superhero. Beginning in the Silver Age, the genre increasingly challenged and complicated its hypermasculine, quasi-eugenicist biases through such disabled figures as Ben Grimm/The Thing, Matt Murdock/Daredevil, and the Doom Patrol. Alaniz traces how the superhero beca |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism
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Death in comics.
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Disabilities in comics.
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People with disabilities in comics.
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Body image in comics.
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Graphic novels -- History and criticism
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ART -- Techniques -- Drawing.
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COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- History & Criticism.
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COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Superheroes.
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People with disabilities in comics
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Disabilities in comics
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Death in comics
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Comic books, strips, etc.
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Graphic novels
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| Genre/Form |
Comics criticism
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Comics criticism.
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Critiques de bandes dessinées et de romans graphiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2014014305 |
| ISBN |
9781628461183 |
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1628461187 |
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9781626740655 |
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1626740658 |
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1628461179 |
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9781628461176 |
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9781626743281 |
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1626743282 |
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