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SUPERHERO READER THE
Charles Hatfield
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Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Hatfield, Charles; Heer, Jeet; Worcester, Kent. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 536.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
ROUNDHOUSE PUBLISHING GROUP
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Jackson, United States
ISBN
9781617038068
SKU
V9781617038068
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99-50
About Charles Hatfield
Charles Hatfield is an associate professor of English at California State University, Northridge, and is the author of Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature and Hand of Fire: The Comic Art of Jack Kirby, both published by University Press of Mississippi.|Jeet Heer, a former columnist for the National Post (Canada), has been published in Slate, the Boston Globe, the Guardian, ... Read more
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