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Easton, Lee and Richard Harrison. Secret Identity Reader: Essays on Sex, Death and the Superhero. Hamilton: Wolsak and Wynn, 2010. Added by: joachim (11/17/12, 12:47 PM) |
Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 1894987500 BibTeX citation key: Easton2010 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: Collection of essays, Superhero Creators: Easton, Harrison Publisher: Wolsak and Wynn (Hamilton) |
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Comic book superheroes have risen from their newsprint beginnings to dominate films, infiltrate the literary establishment, and become an integral part of popular culture. Secret Identity Reader: Essays on Sex, Death and the Superhero is a collaboration between two authors who investigate, and often disagree on, key facets of the superhero character and storyline. Masculinity, origin stories and the problem of the sidekick are all fair game in this wide-ranging discussion, which also considers the superhero’s place in a post 9/11 world and ponders why these characters keep dying and coming back to life. Table of Contents Lee Easton: The First Introduction to This Book: On the Uncanny Nature of Alter Egos, or the Secret Identity of Comic Book Critics Richard Harrison: Origin Issues: A Second Introduction to This Book Richard Harrison: The Dark Knight Origin of the Man of Steel Lee Easton: How Comic Books Became Postmodern: A Rough Guide to the Evolution of the Comic Book Superhero Narrative Richard Harrison: Modernism and the Silver Age Richard Harrison: The Fantastic Paper-Man: Heroic Proportion, The Ideal Body And Me Lee Easton: Sharing a Quick Look: A Gay Man Reads his Comics Richard Harrison: Grown Women’s Bodies in a Young Boy's Hands: A Memoir Lee Easton: Boy Trouble: The Sidekick Problem in the Superhero Comic Richard Harrison: “No! It Can’t Be! I Saw You Die!” – A First Look at Comic Book Mythology and the Return of the Dead Lee Easton and Richard Harrison: Beginning and End Richard Harrison: Beginning, Middle and Beginning Again Lee Easton: No Endings? No Problem! Reboot, Rinse, Repeat Richard Harrison: The Heroic Narrative in Crisis Lee Easton: “Crisis? What Crisis?” Richard Harrison: The Death of the Secret Identity: The Graphic Novel and the Superhero Story Lee Easton: Rogers and Stark: Of Masks and Men Richard Harrison: Hidden, Not Gone: The End of Death and the Return of the Secret Identity Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Author Bios Index Added by: joachim |