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Routledge Superheroes and American Self Image: From War to Watergate (The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture)

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Product Description This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of comic-books, mobilising them as a means to understand better the political context in which they are produced. Structured around key political events in the US between 1938 and 1975, the author combines analyses of visual and textual discourse, including comic-book letters pages, to come to a more complete picture of the relationship between comic-books as documents and the people who read and created them. Exploring the ways in which ideas about the US and its place in the world were represented in major superhero comic-books during the tumultuous period of US history from the Great Depression to the political trauma of Watergate and the end of the Vietnam War, Superheroes and American Self-Image sheds fresh light on the manner in which comic-books shape and are shaped by contemporary politics. As such it will appeal to scholars of cultural and media studies, history and popular culture. Review 'Michael Goodrum has provided a fantastic resource on the historical evolution of American self-image in the twentieth century. Particularly striking is his deployment of superhero comics as a fun-house mirror that actively reworks American self-image, indicating how identities must be actualised in specific forms. By cutting back and forth between the political struggles and the superhero narratives of the time, Goodrum articulates the complex geopolitics of the twentieth century with verve and charm.' - Jason Dittmer, University College London, UK '... a lucid and compelling narrative of the evolution of one subgenre of the comic book genre and how it interacted with American society and culture over a significant span of American history.' - John H. Barnhill, 49th Parallel About the Author Michael Goodrum is Senior Lecturer in Modern History in the Department of History and American Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1472435508
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Americas > United States > 20th Century
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 February 2016
Listed Since: 11 September 2015

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