Author: Publisher: PediaPress
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1751
Book Description
Superman
Author: The Ages of Superman
Author: Joseph J. DarowskiPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786489642
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Since Superman first appeared on the cover of Action Comics #1 in 1938, the superhero has changed with the times to remain a relevant icon of American popular culture. This collection explores the evolution of the Superman character and demonstrates how his alterations mirror historical changes in American society. Beginning with the original comic book and ending with the 2011 Grounded storyline, these essays examine Superman's patriotic heroism during World War II, his increase in power in the early years of the Cold War, his death and resurrection at the end of the Cold War, and his recent dramatic reimagining. By looking at the many changes the Man of Steel has undergone to remain pertinent, this volume reveals as much about America as it does about the champion of Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
Superman on Film, Television, Radio and Broadway
Author: Bruce ScivallyPublisher: McFarland
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"The book includes rarely seen photos of the actors who have brought Superman to life, including Clayton "Bud" Collyer, Kirk Alyn, George Reeves and Christopher Reeve. Appendices provide a listing of Superman-related books and websites, along with a comprehensive chart of the cast and characters featured in Superman films, television shows, and radio programs since 1941"--Provided by publisher.
United States Civil Aircraft Register
Author: The Official Overstreet Comic Book Companion
Author: Robert M. OverstreetPublisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 0375722815
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Describes and lists the values of popular collectible comics and graphic novels issued from the 1950s to today, providing tips on buying, collecting, selling, grading, and caring for comics and including a section on related toys and rings.
DC Comics Encyclopedia
Author: Superman Returns
Author: Bryan SingerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781401211462
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Collects the prequel stories that explore the five year gap between Superman's departure from Earth and his return as depicted in Superman Returns.
Superman
Author: Joe KellyPublisher: Titan Books (UK)
ISBN: 9781845763428
Category : Superman (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The world's most famous superhero, Superman's adventures protecting Metropolis have thrilled readers worldwide for over sixty years! Now, as the events of the infinite crisis rage on, the Man of Steel is locked in a desperate battle with his counterpart - the Golden Age Superman from Earth-Two - with the very fate of our reality at stake! Superman hatches a last-ditch plan: to use the ripples in reality to change history! But can he do it before everything falls apart? Written by Joe Kelly (Superman: No Limits) and Jeph Loeb (Superman/Batman), and featuring the art of Ed Benes and classic artists including Jerry Ordway and Dan Jurgens, this no-holds-barred battle will change the Man of Steel forever!
Recovering the Radical Promise of Superheroes
Author: Ellen KirkpatrickPublisher: punctum books
ISBN: 1685711081
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Superhero meaning making is a site of struggle. Superheroes (are thought to) trouble borders and normative ways of seeing and being in the world. Superhero narratives (are thought to) represent, and thereby inspire, alternative visions of the real world. The superhero genre is (thought to be) a repository for radical or progressive ideas. In the superhero world and beyond, much is made of the genre's utopian and dystopian landscapes, queer identity-play, and transforming bodies, but might it not be the case that the genre's overblown normative framing, or representation, serves to muzzle, rather than express, its protagonists' radical promise? Why, when set against otherwise unbounded, and often extreme, transformation-human to machine, human to animal, human to god-are certain categories seemingly untouchable? Why does this speculative genre routinely fail to fully speculate about other worlds and ways of being in those worlds? For all their nonconformity, superhero stories do not live up to the idea of a radical genre, in look, feel, or tone. The mainstream American superhero genre, and its surrounding discourses, tells and facilitates an astonishingly seamless tale of opposing ideologies. But how? Recovering the Radical Promise of Superheroes: Un/Making Worlds serves a speculative response, detailing not so much a hunt for genre meaning as a trip through a genre's meaningscape. Looking anew at superhero meaning-making practices allows a distinct way of thinking about and describing the creative, formal, and ideological conditions of the genre and its protagonists, one removed from corralling binaries, one foregrounding the idea of a synergy-often unseen, uneasy, and even hostile-between official and unofficial agents of superhero meaning and one reframing familiar questions: What kinds of meaning do superhero texts engender? How is this meaning made? By whom and under what conditions? What processes and practices inform, regulate, and extend superhero meaning? And finally, superhero narratives present a new question: How might we reimagine its agents, surfaces, and spaces? Centering the experiences and practices of excluded and marginalized superhero fans, Recovering the Radical Promise of Superheroes reveals that genre meaning is not lodged in one place or another, neither in its official creators or fans, nor in "black and white" conservatism or in a "rainbow" of progressive possibilities. Nor is it even located somewhere in the in-between; it is instead better conceived of as an antagonistic, in-process nexus of meaning undergirded by systems of power. Ellen Kirkpatrick, based in northern Ireland, is an activist-writer with a PhD in Cultural Studies. In her work, she writes about activism, pop culture, fan cultures, and the transformative power of storytelling. She has published work in a range of academic journals and media outlets and her writings and work can be found at The Break and on Twitter @elk_dash.
Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie
Author: Frances SmithPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474413102
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
An analysis of novelistic explorations of modernism in mathematics and its cultural interrelations.