Heroes in the night : inside the real life superhero movement / / Tea Krulos
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Krulos Tea
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| Titolo: |
Heroes in the night : inside the real life superhero movement / / Tea Krulos
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| Pubblicazione: | Chicago, Illinois : , : Chicago Review Press, , [2013] |
| ©2013 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (306 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 303.3/72 |
| Soggetto topico: | Community activists - United States |
| Crime prevention - United States - Citizen participation | |
| Social justice - United States | |
| Superheroes - Social aspects - United States | |
| Classificazione: | SOC022000TRU000000 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents ; Introduction: Meet Your Friendly Neighborhood Real Life Superheroes; American Superheroes; Boy Scouts and Batmen; Early Prototypes; Great Lakes Alliance; The Secret City; Coming Out of the Phone Booth; A Tapestry of Evil; The Man in the Green Skull Mask; International Justice Injection; Challengers, Assemble!; Brooklyn's Ex-Superheroes; Mr. Jones and Me; People Fighting and Superheroes and Pepper Spray and . . . I Don't Know; An Age of Heroes?; Epilogue: Masking Up; Acknowledgments; On Line Resources; Notes; Index; Back Cover |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "Tracing the author's journey into the strange subculture of Real Life Superheroes (RLSHs), this book examines citizens who have adopted comic book-style personas and have hit the streets to fight injustice in a variety of ways. Some RLSHs concentrate on humanitarian or activist missions--helping the homeless, gathering donations for food banks, or delivering toys to children--while others actively patrol their neighborhoods looking for crime to fight. By day, these modern Clark Kents work as dishwashers, pencil pushers, and executives in Fortune 500 companies, but by night--they become heroes for the people. Through historic research and extensive interviews, this work shares not only their shining, triumphant moments, but also some of their ill-advised, terrifying disasters" -- Provided by publisher. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Heroes in the night |
| ISBN: | 1-61374-776-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910790642303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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