The new mutants superheroes and the radical imagination of American comics
"In 1964, noted literary critic Leslie Fiedler described American youth as 'new mutants, ' social rebels severing their attachments to American culture to remake themselves in their own image. 1960s comic book creators, anticipating Fiedler, began to morph American superheroes from ic...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York ; London :
New York University Press
[2016]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Postmillennial pop. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39275838*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: superhumans in America
- The family of Superman : the superhero team and the promise of universal citizenship
- "Flame on!" Nuclear families, unstable molecules, and the queer history of the Fantastic Four
- Comic book cosmopolitics : the Fantastic Four's counterpublic as a world-making project
- "Where no X-Man has gone before!" Mutant superheroes and the cultural politics of the comic book space opera
- Heroes "that give a damn!" Urban folktales and the triumph of the working-class hero
- Consumed by hellfire : demonic possession and the limits of the superhuman in the 1980s
- Lost in the badlands : radical imagination and the enchantments of mutant solidarity in The new mutants
- Epilogue: Marvelous corpse.
