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Title: Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology (Studies in Popular Culture) by Richard Reynolds ISBN: 0-87805-694-7 Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi Pub. Date: 01 March, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great.
Comment: This book forever changed the way that I read superhero comics. Reynolds discusses the factors that are present in virtually every superhero comic since Superman was created. Some are apparent (devotion to justice, secret identitities), and some are subtle (lost parents, accountability only to one's own conscience). Virtually all factors are recapitulations of the developmental struggles of the primary audience of these comics: adolescent males. Reynolds continues by illuminating the grand, mythical nature of the comic-book universes, all stories blending into one vast "canonical" story, each comic becoming part of a larger continuity. This continuity shares several features of classical mythologies, which Reynolds explores in depth, citing the X-Men, the Watchmen, and the Dark Knight Returns series (among others) as evidence. Read this, it's great.
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Title: Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America by Bradford W. Wright ISBN: 0801874505 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society by Danny Fingeroth, Stan Lee ISBN: 0826415407 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: How to Read Superhero Comics and Why by Geoff Klock ISBN: 0826414192 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Batman Unmasked: Analyzing a Cultural Icon by Will Brooker ISBN: 0826413439 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Science of Superheroes by Lois H. Gresh, Robert Weinberg ISBN: 0471024600 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 06 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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