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1 online resource |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The Thing. Daredevil. Captain Marvel. The Human Fly. Drawing on DC and Marvel comics from the 1950s to the 1990s and marshaling insights from three burgeoning fields of inquiry in the humanities--disability studies, death and dying studies, and comics studies--José Alaniz seeks to redefine the contemporary understanding of the superhero. Beginning in the Silver Age, the genre increasingly challenged and complicated its hypermasculine, quasi-eugenicist biases through such disabled figures as Ben Grimm/The Thing, Matt Murdock/Daredevil, and the Doom Patrol. Alaniz traces how the superhero beca. |
| Contents |
Introduction : "Unmasked at last!" : death, disability and the super-body -- Supercrip: disability, visuality, and the Silver Age superhero -- "What can we ever have to fear from a blind man?!!": disability, Daredevil, and passing -- Borderline cases: gender, race, and the "disabled" superhero -- Dismodernism and "The world's strangest heroes" -- How not to be a superhero: narrative prosthetics and the human fly -- Dismal trade: death, the market, and Silver Age superheroes -- Facing death in Strikeforce: Morituri -- Death, bereavement, and "Funeral for a friend" -- Conclusion: vital lies, vital truths. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism.
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Comic books, strips, etc. |
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Death in comics.
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Death in comics. |
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Disabilities in comics.
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Disabilities in comics. |
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People with disabilities in comics.
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People with disabilities in comics. |
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Body image in comics..
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Graphic novels -- History and criticism.
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ART -- Techniques -- Drawing. |
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COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- History & Criticism. |
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Graphic novels. |
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COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Superheroes. |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Comics criticism.
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Comics criticism.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Alaniz, José. Death, disability, and the superhero. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014 9781628461183 (DLC) 2014014305 |
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Print version: Alaniz, José. Death, disability, and the superhero. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014 9781628461176 (DLC) 2014014241 |
| ISBN |
9781628461183 (electronic book) |
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1628461187 (electronic book) |
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9781626740655 (electronic book) |
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1626740658 (electronic book) |
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1628461179 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9781628461176 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9781628461176 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9781626743281 (epub) |
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1626743282 |
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