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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787653603321

Titolo

Examining Lois Lane : the scoop on Superman's sweetheart / / edited by Nadine Farghaly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Scarecrow Press, Inc., , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-8108-9237-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FarghalyNadine <1981->

Disciplina

741.5/9

Soggetti

Comic books, strips, etc - United States

Women in literature

Literature and society - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Full Disclosure; 2 The Evolution of Lois Lane in Film and Television; 3 Feminine Mystique; 4 Lois and Superman; 5 The Quest of Lois; 6 Supermen and Not-So-Super Women; 7 Sex, the Single Girl, Superman, and the City; 8 What's Love Got to Do with It?; 9 It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Lois Lane!; 10 Woman on Top; 11 "I Moved On, and So Did theRest of Us"; 12 Smallville's Lois Lane; 13 Domesticity Deferred; 14 Attachment Disorder and Smallville; Index; About the Editor

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays examines the Lois Lane character in comic books, film, and television to address various aspects of sexuality, gender, social change, and feminism.