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Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 978-0-7864-6453-1 BibTeX citation key: Comer2012 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: Collection of essays, Moore. Alan, Politics, Sexuality, United Kingdom Creators: Comer, Sommers Publisher: McFarland (Jefferson, London) |
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Alan Moore, the idiosyncratic, controversial and often shocking writer of such works as Watchmen, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and V for Vendetta, remains a benchmark for readers of comics and graphic novels. This collection investigates the political, social, cultural, and sexual ideologies that emerge from his seminal work, Lost Girls, and demonstrates how these ideologies relate to Moore’s larger body of work. Framed by Moore’s insistence upon deconstructing the myth of the superhero, each essay attends to the form and content of Moore’s comics under the rubric of his pervasive metaphor of the “politics of sexuality/the sexing of politics.” Essays provide a wide-ranging critical examination of many of Moore’s most prominent themes, including anarchic and sexual politics, the limits of recent pop culture and history, religion, and environmentalism.
Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments (1) I: The “Low Form”: Moore and the Complex Relationships of the Comic Book Superhero II: The Vicious Cabaret of Love, Sexual Desire … and Torture III: Victorian Sexualities and the Écriture Féminine: Women Writing and the Women of Writing Annalisa Di Liddo: Afterword: Disgust with the Revolution (201) Selected Bibliography (207) Added by: joachim Last edited by: joachim |