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Superhero Reader

Superhero Reader

Heer, Jeet
Worcester, Kent
Hatfield, Charles

Paperback

Literary CriticismFilm StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1617038067
ISBN13: 9781617038068
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Aug 15 2018
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Despite their commercial appeal and cross-media reach, superheroes are only recently starting to attract sustained scholarly attention. This groundbreaking collection brings together essays and book excerpts by major writers on comics and popular culture.

While superhero comics are a distinct and sometimes disdained branch of comics creation, they are integral to the development of the North American comic book and the history of the medium. For the past half-century they have also been the one overwhelmingly dominant market genre. The sheer volume of superhero comics that have been published over the years is staggering. Major superhero universes constitute one of the most expansive storytelling canvases ever fashioned. Moreover, characters inhabiting these fictional universes are immensely influential, having achieved iconic recognition around the globe. Their images and adventures have shaped many other media, such as film, video games, and even prose fiction.

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