LEADER 04192nam 2200613 450 001 9910822649103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-62674-618-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000471105 035 $a(EBL)4397135 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001597303 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4397135 035 $a(OCoLC)906028008 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse42190 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4397135 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11155654 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL827475 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000471105 100 $a20160607h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aBending steel $emodernity and the American superhero /$fAldo J. Regalado 210 1$aJackson, Mississippi :$cUniversity Press of Mississippi,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (300 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-62846-221-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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; 330 $a""Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. It's Superman!" Bending Steel examines the historical origins and cultural significance of Superman and his fellow American crusaders. Cultural historian Aldo J. Regalado asserts that the superhero seems a direct response to modernity, often fighting the interrelated processes of industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and capitalism that transformed the United States from the early nineteenth century to the present. Reeling from these exciting but rapid and destabilizing forces, Americans turned to heroic fiction as a means of explaining national and personal identities to themselves and to the world. In so doing, they created characters and stories that sometimes affirmed, but other times subverted conventional notions of race, class, gender, and nationalism. The cultural conversation articulated through the nation's early heroic fiction eventually led to a new heroic type--the brightly clad, super-powered, pro-social action heroes that first appeared in American comic books starting in the late 1930's. Although indelibly shaped by the Great Depression and World War II sensibilities of the second-generation immigrants most responsible for their creation, comic book superheroes remain a mainstay of American popular culture. Tracing superhero fiction all the way back to the nineteenth century, Regalado firmly bases his analysis of dime novels, pulp fiction, and comics in historical, biographical, and reader response sources. He explores the roles played by creators, producers, and consumers in crafting superhero fiction, ultimately concluding that these narratives are essential for understanding vital trajectories in American culture"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aComic books, strips, etc$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aSuperheroes in literature 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aModernism (Aesthetics)$zUnited States$xInfluence 606 $aSuperhero films$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aComic books, strips, etc.$xHistory. 615 0$aSuperheroes in literature. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aModernism (Aesthetics)$xInfluence. 615 0$aSuperhero films$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a741.5/973 686 $aCGN004080$aLIT017000$aSOC022000$2bisacsh 700 $aRegalado$b Aldo J.$01651403 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822649103321 996 $aBending steel$94001324 997 $aUNINA