00832nam0-22003011i-450-99000055264040332120150120085702.00 08 031199 7000055264FED01000055264(Aleph)000055264FED0100005526420020821d--------km-y0itay50------baitay-------001yyIntroduction to battlefield weapons systems and technologyR. G. Lee2. ed.LondonBrassey's Publ.198523 cm259 p.Brassey's battlefield weapons systems and technology series12355.82Lee,R. G.ITUNINARICAUNIMARCBK99000055264040332105 64 79206DININDININUNINA04169nam 2200613 450 991046143610332120200520144314.01-62674-618-4(CKB)3710000000471105(EBL)4397135(StDuBDS)EDZ0001597303(MiAaPQ)EBC4397135(OCoLC)906028008(MdBmJHUP)muse42190(Au-PeEL)EBL4397135(CaPaEBR)ebr11155654(CaONFJC)MIL827475(EXLCZ)99371000000047110520160607h20152015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdacontentrdamediardacarrierBending steel modernity and the American superhero /Aldo J. RegaladoJackson, Mississippi :University Press of Mississippi,2015.©20151 online resource (300 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-62846-221-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: Secret Origins; CHAPTER TWO: Jungle Lords, Haunting Horrors, and the Big City; CHAPTER THREE: From Strange Visitors to Men of Tomorrow; CHAPTER FOUR: From Steel and Shadows to the Flag; CHAPTER FIVE: Domestication, Dysfunction, and the Rise of Superhero Fandom; CHAPTER SIX: From Renaissance to the Dark Age; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index;""Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. It's Superman!" Bending Steel examines the historical origins and cultural significance of Superman and his fellow American crusaders. Cultural historian Aldo J. Regalado asserts that the superhero seems a direct response to modernity, often fighting the interrelated processes of industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and capitalism that transformed the United States from the early nineteenth century to the present. Reeling from these exciting but rapid and destabilizing forces, Americans turned to heroic fiction as a means of explaining national and personal identities to themselves and to the world. In so doing, they created characters and stories that sometimes affirmed, but other times subverted conventional notions of race, class, gender, and nationalism. The cultural conversation articulated through the nation's early heroic fiction eventually led to a new heroic type--the brightly clad, super-powered, pro-social action heroes that first appeared in American comic books starting in the late 1930's. Although indelibly shaped by the Great Depression and World War II sensibilities of the second-generation immigrants most responsible for their creation, comic book superheroes remain a mainstay of American popular culture. Tracing superhero fiction all the way back to the nineteenth century, Regalado firmly bases his analysis of dime novels, pulp fiction, and comics in historical, biographical, and reader response sources. He explores the roles played by creators, producers, and consumers in crafting superhero fiction, ultimately concluding that these narratives are essential for understanding vital trajectories in American culture"--Provided by publisher.Comic books, strips, etcUnited StatesHistorySuperheroes in literatureAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismModernism (Aesthetics)United StatesInfluenceSuperhero filmsHistory and criticismElectronic books.Comic books, strips, etc.History.Superheroes in literature.American fictionHistory and criticism.Modernism (Aesthetics)Influence.Superhero filmsHistory and criticism.741.5/973Regalado Aldo J.1027937MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461436103321Bending steel2443707UNINA01246nam0 22002891i 450 UON0012317920231205102725.73620020107d1968 |0itac50 baengIN|||| 1||||Asoka and his inscriptionsBeni Madhab BaruaCalcuttaNew Age Publishers19682 v.25 cmAltro inv.: 125720IT-UONSI SIXXA/017 (1-2)EX INV.: ARC 2520IT-UONSI SIXXA/017 (2)EPIGRAFIA INDIANAASOKAUONC001496FIINCalcuttaUONL000111SI XX ASUBCONT. INDIANO - EPIGRAFIAABARUABeni MadhabUONV076851667347New Age PublishersUONV262109650ITSOL20240220RICAUON00123179SIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEOSI SI XX A 017 (1-2) SI ARC2520 7 017 (1-2) Altro inv.: 125720SIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEOSI SI XX A 017 (2) SI SA 125720 7 017 (2) EX INV.: ARC 2520Asoka and his inscriptions1316286UNIOR