Examining Pop Culture - Comic Books (hardcover edition) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0737725451 ISBN 13: 9780737725452

Publisher: Greenhaven Press, 2005

Synopsis

While often dismissed as children's amusements, many comic books reflect serious social concerns of their day. Perhaps the most enduring of comics, though, also reveal people's deep-seeded need to believe in superheroes.

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Grade 9 Up–Comics get explained for the social, cultural, and intellectual phenomenon that they are. Each chapter is essentially an excerpted piece from a larger, university-press book, so the writing and commentary provided are consistently first-rate. The engrossing essays cover myriad topics including the universal elements of a comic-book story, the historical changes that comics have undergone, and the splintering of the genre into underground comix, graphic novels, and manga. Further, the self-censorship that comic artists imposed on themselves in the postwar era, the surprisingly common antihero, and the sexist drawings so widely known are all sensitively and finely addressed. The text-only format may discourage some, but other readers will enjoy the serious treatment of the topic. A reliable title covering many needs, Comic Books should be picked up wherever possible.–John Leighton, Brooklyn Public Library, NY
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Edition details

• Publisher: Greenhaven Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0737725451
• ISBN 13: 9780737725452
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 174
• Editor: David M. Haugen