| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 257 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; WORKING-CLASS COMIC BOOK HEROES; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction Cultivating Empathy: The Subversive Potential of Populist Comic Books; PART I. REPRESENTATIONS OF CLASS AND POPULISM IN HORROR AND SCIENCE FICTION COMICS; Past Lives Memory and the Meaning of Work in The Walking Dead; You Can Be Whatever the Hell You Want Heroism and the Female Working Class in Preacher; Alan Moore and Anarchist Praxis in Form Bibliography, Remediation, and Aesthetic Form in V for Vendetta and Black Dossier |
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Truth, Justice, and the Socialist Way? The Politics of Grant Morrison's SupermanPART II. MARVEL COMICS, NETFLIX, AND THE WORKING-CLASS SUPERHERO; From the Streets to the Swamp Luke Cage, Man-Thing, and the 1970s Class Issues of Marvel Comics; "It's Just Us Here" Daredevil and the Trauma of Big Power; Jack Kirby The Not-So-Secret Identity of the Thing; Marvel's Shamrock Haunted Heroine, Working Woman, Guardian of the Galaxy; The Working-Class PI (AKA Jessica Jones) Alias as a Narrative of Quiet Desperation; About the Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
The first book to tackle the blue-collar hero and working-class creators |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 13, 2018) |
| Subject |
Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism
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Working class in comics.
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Social conflict in comics.
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Populism in comics.
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Superheroes in comics.
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Working class authors.
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ART -- Techniques -- Drawing.
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Working class in comics
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Superheroes in comics
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Social conflict in comics
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Populism in comics
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Comic books, strips, etc.
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Working class authors
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| Genre/Form |
Comics criticism
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Comics criticism.
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Critiques de bandes dessinées et de romans graphiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Di Paolo, Marc, editor
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| LC no. |
2017048858 |
| ISBN |
9781496816689 |
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1496816684 |
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