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Superman in Myth and Folklore By:Daniel Peretti Published on 2017-10-05 by Univ. Press of Mississippi Please create a FREE ACCOUNT to continue reading or download !  Start your Free Month Superman rose from popular culture--comic books, newspaper strips, radio, television, novels, and movies| but people have so embraced the character that he has now become part of folklore. This transition from popular to folk culture signals the importance of Superman to fans and to a larger American populace. Superman's story has become a myth dramatizing identity, morality, and politics. Many studies have examined the ways in which folklore has provided inspiration for other forms of culture, especially literature and cinema. In Superman in Myth and Folklore, Daniel Peretti explores the meaning of folklore inspired by popular culture, focusing not on the Man of Steel's origins but on the culture he has helped create. Superman provides a way to approach fundamental questions of human nat...

Comic Book Crime By:Nickie D. Phillips,Staci Strobl Published on 2013-07-15 by NYU Press Please create a FREE ACCOUNT to continue reading or download !  Start your Free Month Superman, Batman, Daredevil, and Wonder Woman are iconic cultural figures that embody values of order, fairness, justice, and retribution. Comic Book Crime digs deep into these and other celebrated characters, providing a comprehensive understanding of crime and justice in contemporary American comic books. This is a world where justice is delivered, where heroes save ordinary citizens from certain doom, where evil is easily identified and thwarted by powers far greater than mere mortals could possess. Nickie Phillips and Staci Strobl explore these representations and show that comic books, as a historically important American cultural medium, participate in both reflecting and shaping an American ideological identity that is often focused on ideas of the apocalypse, utopia, retribution, and nationalism. Thro...

The Greatest Comic Book of All Time By:Bart Beaty,Benjamin Woo Published on 2016-04-27 by Springer Please create a FREE ACCOUNT to continue reading or download !  Start your Free Month Bart Beaty and Benjamin Woo work to historicize why it is that certain works or creators have come to define the notion of a |quality comic book,| while other works and creators have been left at the fringes of critical analysis. This Book was ranked at 30 by Google Books for keyword comic. Book ID of The Greatest Comic Book of All Time's Books is OT8WDAAAQBAJ, Book which was written byBart Beaty,Benjamin Woohave ETAG "7rCFT/vwcv4" Book which was published by Springer since 2016-04-27 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9781137531629 and ISBN 10 Code is 1137531622 Reading Mode in Text Status is true and Reading Mode in Image Status is true Book which have "156 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategorySocial Science This Book was rated by 1 Raters and have average rate at "4...

The Secret History of Wonder Woman By:Jill Lepore Published on 2014-10-28 by Vintage Please create a FREE ACCOUNT to continue reading or download !  Start your Free Month A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origin of Wonder Woman, one of the world’s most iconic superheroes, hides within it a fascinating family story—and a crucial history of twentieth-century feminism Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has uncovered an astonishing trove of documents, including the never-before-seen private papers of William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman’s creator. Beginning in his undergraduate years at Harvard, Marston was influenced by early suffragists and feminists, starting with Emmeline Pankhurst, who was banned from speaking on campus in 1911, when Marston was a freshman. In the 1920s, Marston and his wife, Sadie Elizabeth Holloway, brought into their home Olive Byrne, the niece of Margaret Sanger, one of the most influential feminists of the twe...

It Happens at Comic-Con By:Ben Bolling,Matthew J. Smith Published on 2014-02-18 by McFarland Please create a FREE ACCOUNT to continue reading or download !  Start your Free Month This collection of 13 new essays employs ethnographic methods to investigate San Diego’s Comic-Con International, the largest annual celebration of the popular arts in North America. Working from a common grounding in fan studies, these individual explorations examine a range of cultural practices at an event drawing crowds of nearly 125,000 each summer. Investigations range from the practices of fans costuming themselves to the talk of corporate marketers. The collection seeks to expand fan studies, exploring Comic-Con International more deeply than any publication before it. This Book was ranked at 21 by Google Books for keyword comic. Book ID of It Happens at Comic-Con's Books is MnraAgAAQBAJ, Book which was written byBen Bolling,Matthew J. Smithhave ETAG "3wRHSxN7yaw" Book which was pu...

Comics and Stuff By:Henry Jenkins Published on 2020-04-14 by NYU Press Please create a FREE ACCOUNT to continue reading or download !  Start your Free Month Considers how comics display our everyday stuff—junk drawers, bookshelves, attics—as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now For most of their history, comics were widely understood as disposable—you read them and discarded them, and the pulp paper they were printed on decomposed over time. Today, comic books have been rebranded as graphic novels—clothbound high-gloss volumes that can be purchased in bookstores, checked out of libraries, and displayed proudly on bookshelves. They are reviewed by serious critics and studied in university classrooms. A medium once considered trash has been transformed into a respectable, if not elite, genre. While the American comics of the past were about hyperbolic battles between good and evil, most of today’s graphic novels focus on everyday personal experiences. Contemporary...

Comics Memory By:Maaheen Ahmed,Benoît Crucifix Published on 2018-09-02 by Palgrave Macmillan Please create a FREE ACCOUNT to continue reading or download !  Start your Free Month Despite the boom in scholarship in both Comics Studies and Memory Studies, the two fields rarely interact—especially with issues beyond the representation of traumatic and autobiographical memories in comics. With a focus on the roles played by styles and archives—in their physical and metaphorical manifestations—this edited volume offers an original intervention, highlighting several novel ways of thinking about comics and memory as comics memory. Bringing together scholars as well as cultural actors, the contributions combine studies on European and North American comics and offer a representative overview of the main comics genres and forms, including superheroes, Westerns, newspaper comics, diary comics, comics reportage and alternative comics. In considering the many manifestations of memory in comic...

Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends By:Jan Harold Brunvand Published on 2011-02-07 by W. W. Norton & Company Please create a FREE ACCOUNT to continue reading or download !  Start your Free Month |If you enjoy these too-good-to-be-true tales, Brunvand's new book will give you hours of pleasure.|—Chicago Tribune A fabulously entertaining book from the ultimate authority on those almost believable tales that always happen to a |friend of a friend.| Alligators in the sewers? A pet in the microwave? A tragic misunderstanding of the function of cruise control? No, it didn't really happen to your friend's sister's neighbor: it's an urban legend. And no matter how savvy you think you are, you are sure to find in this collection of over 200 tales at least one story you would have sworn was true. Jan Harold Brunvand has been collecting and studying this modern folklore for over twenty years. In Too Good to Be True he captures the best stories in t...

Supergods By:Grant Morrison Published on 2011-07-19 by Spiegel & Grau Please create a FREE ACCOUNT to continue reading or download !  Start your Free Month NATIONAL BESTSELLER What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Iron Man, and the X-Men—the list of names as familiar as our own. They are on our movie and television screens, in our videogames and in our dreams. But what are they trying to tell us? For Grant Morrison, one of the most acclaimed writers in the world of comics, these heroes are powerful archetypes who reflect and predict the course of human existence: Through them we tell the story of ourselves. In this exhilarating work of a lifetime, Morrison draws on art, archetypes, and his own astonishing journeys through this shadow universe to provide the first true history of our great modern myth: the superhero. Now with a new Afterword. This Book was ranked at 18 by Google ...