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University Press of Mississippi Bending Steel: Modernity and the American Superhero

Name: Bending Steel: Modernity and the American Superhero
Brand: University Press of Mississippi
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Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound . . . It's Superman!"" Bending Steel examines the historical origins and cultural significance of Superman and his fellow American crusaders. Cultural historian Aldo J. Regalado asserts that the superhero seems a direct response to modernity, often fighting the interrelated processes of industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and capitalism that transformed the United States from the early nineteenth century to the present. Reeling from these exciting but rapid and destabilizing forces, Americans turned to heroic fiction as a means of explaining national and personal identities to themselves and to the world. In so doing, they created characters and stories that sometimes affirmed, but other times subverted conventional notions of race, class, gender, and nationalism.The cultural conversation articulated through the nation's early heroic fiction eventually led to a new heroic type--the brightly clad, super-powered, pro-social action heroes that first appeared in American comic books starting in the late 1930s. Although indelibly shaped by the Great Depression and World War II sensibilities of the second-generation immigrants most responsible for their creation, comic book superheroes remain a mainstay of American popular culture.Tracing superhero fiction all the way back to the nineteenth century, Regalado firmly bases his analysis of dime novels, pulp fiction, and comics in historical, biographical, and reader response sources. He explores the roles played by creators, producers, and consumers in crafting superhero fiction, ultimately concluding that these narratives are essential for understanding vital trajectories in American culture. Review Bending Steel is an insightful volume that reads like a synthesis of two decades of scholarship on superhero comics. . . . Regalado's fine book is a welcome addition to superheroism scholarship and deserves a wide readership.--Simon Wendt, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt "Amerikastudien / American Studies: A Quarterly" About the Author Aldo J. Regalado, Homestead, Florida, is a teacher of history and American studies at Palmer Trinity School, an adjunct lecturer through the American Studies Program at the University of Miami, and an adjunct lecturer in US history at Florida International University.

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Brand: University Press of Mississippi
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 1628462213
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Graphic Arts > Commercial > Illustration
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 August 2015
Listed Since: 29 October 2014

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