The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero

The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero
ISBN-10
1135213933
ISBN-13
9781135213930
Category
Social Science
Pages
314
Language
English
Published
2009-05-07
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Angela Ndalianis

Description

Over the last several decades, comic book superheroes have multiplied and, in the process, become more complicated. In this cutting edge anthology an international roster of contributors offer original research and writing on the contemporary comic book superhero, with occasional journeys into the film and television variation. As superheroes and their stories have grown with the audiences that consume them, their formulas, conventions, and narrative worlds have altered to follow suit, injecting new, unpredictable and more challenging characterizations that engage ravenous readers who increasingly demand more.

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