LEADER 04158nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910782615603321 005 20230721005059.0 010 $a1-135-21394-1 010 $a1-282-07477-6 010 $a9786612074776 010 $a0-203-87309-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000719303 035 $a(EBL)425560 035 $a(OCoLC)476267316 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000129630 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11134868 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000129630 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10077848 035 $a(PQKB)11008719 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC425560 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL425560 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10292039 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL207477 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000719303 100 $a20080428d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe contemporary comic book superhero$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Angela Ndalianis 210 $aNew York $cRoutledge$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (314 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge research in cultural and media studies ;$v19 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-87841-1 311 $a0-415-99176-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBook Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Part I "That's the Problem With You Readers, You Know All the Plots": Time, Genre, and Narration; 1 Comic Book Superheroes: An Introduction; 2 'Just Men in Tights': Rewriting Silver Age Comics in an Era of Multiplicity; 3 The Time of Heroes: Narrative, Progress, and Eternity in Miracleman; 4 'Worlds Within Worlds': The Role of Superheroes in the Marvel and DC Universes; 5 Baroque Mutants in the 21st Century?: Rethinking Genre Through the Superhero 327 $aPart II "We Act Normal, Mom! I Want to Be Normal!": Superbodies, Identities, and Fans6 Secret Identity Politics; 7 The Superhero as Labor: The Corporate Secret Identity; 8 When Fangirls Perform: The Gendered Fan Identity in Superhero Comics Fandom; 9 Recruiting an Amazon: The Collision of Old World Ideology and New World Identity in Wonder Woman; 10 'Oy Gevalt!': A Peek at the Development of Jewish Superheroines; Part III "I'm Just a Puppet Who Can See the Strings" Revisions, Retellings, and Auteurs; 11 Entering the Green: Imaginal Space in Black Orchid 327 $a12 The Mild-Mannered Reporter: How Clark Kent Surpassed Superman13 It's a Jungle in Here: Animal Man, Continuity Issues, and the Authorial Death Drive; 14 Morrison's Muscle Mystery Versus Everyday Reality . . . and Other Parallel Worlds!; 15 Enter the Aleph: Superhero Worlds and Hypertime Realities; Contributors; Index 330 $aOver the last several decades, comic book superheroes have multiplied and, in the process, become more complicated. In this cutting edge anthology an international roster of contributors offer original research and writing on the contemporary comic book superhero, with occasional journeys into the film and television variation. As superheroes and their stories have grown with the audiences that consume them, their formulas, conventions, and narrative worlds have altered to follow suit, injecting new, unpredictable and more challenging characterizations that engage ravenous readers who incre 410 0$aRoutledge research in cultural and media studies ;$v19. 606 $aComic books, strips, etc$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHeroes in art 606 $aHeroes in literature 606 $aSuperheroes in art 615 0$aComic books, strips, etc.$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHeroes in art. 615 0$aHeroes in literature. 615 0$aSuperheroes in art. 676 $a741.5 676 $a741.5/352 676 $a741.5352 700 $aNdalianis$b Angela$f1960-$0625121 701 $aNdalianis$b Angela$f1960-$0625121 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782615603321 996 $aThe contemporary comic book superhero$93849100 997 $aUNINA