Amazing Spider Man
Amazon Mythology
Black Orchid
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Clark Kent
Classic Superhero
comics
DC Comic
DC Universe
Diana Prince
Doom Patrol
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fan culture research
gender representation superheroes
genre
graphic narrative analysis
Green Goblin
Green Lantern
Hero's Journey
Hero’s Journey
identity
identity politics comics
JSA
justice
Justice League
league
lex
Lex Luthor
luthor
marvel
Marvel Universe
Mundus Imaginalis
narrative continuity comics
Reading Superhero Comics
secret
Secret Identity
Super Hero
Superhero Comics
Superhero Genre
superhero genre studies
superhero narrative evolution research
Superheroes
Swamp Thing
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WW II
Product details
- ISBN 9780415878418
- Weight: 580g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jan 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Over 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 increasingly demand more.
Angela Ndalianis is the Head of Cinema Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her publications include Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment (MIT Press 2004) and the co-edited books Super/Heroes: from Hercules to Superman (New Academia 2006) and Stars in Our Eyes (Praeger 2002).
