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The Thing. Daredevil. Captain Marvel. The Human Fly. Drawing on DC and Marvel comics from the 1950's to the 1990's and marshaling insights from three burgeoning fields of inquiry in the humanities-disability studies, death and dying studies, and comics studies-the book seeks to redefine the contemporary understanding of the superhero. Beginning in the Silver Age, the genre increasingly challenged and complicated its hypermasculine, quasi-eugenicist biases through such disabled figures as Ben Grimm/The Thing, Matt Murdock/Daredevil, and the Doom Patrol. The author traces how the superhero became increasingly vulnerable, ill, and mortal in this era. He then proceeds to a reinterpretation of characters and series-some familiar (Superman), some obscure (She-Thing).

Body image in literature. --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- Death in literature. --- Graphic novels --- Graphic novels. --- People with disabilities in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Comic book novels --- Fiction graphic novels --- Fictive graphic novels --- Graphic albums --- Graphic fiction --- Graphic nonfiction --- Graphic novellas --- Nonfiction graphic novels --- Fiction --- Popular literature --- Handicapped in literature --- Physically handicapped in literature --- Comic books, strips, etc

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Multiculturalism, and its representation, has long presented challenges for the medium of comics. This book presents a wide ranging survey of the ways in which comics have dealt with the diversity of creators and characters and the (lack of) visibility for characters who don’t conform to particular cultural stereotypes. Contributors engage with ethnicity and other cultural forms from Israel, Romania, North America, South Africa, Germany, Spain, U.S. Latino and Canada and consider the ways in which comics are able to represent multiculturalism through a focus on the formal elements of the medium. Discussion themes include education, countercultures, monstrosity, the quotidian, the notion of the ‘other," anthropomorphism, and colonialism. Taking a truly international perspective, the book brings into dialogue a broad range of comics traditions.

Bandes dessinées --- Paralittérature --- Culture de masse --- Multiculturalisme --- Multiculturalism in literature --- Multiculturalism in literature. --- Comic book novels --- Fiction graphic novels --- Fictive graphic novels --- Graphic albums --- Graphic fiction --- Graphic nonfiction --- Graphic novellas --- Nonfiction graphic novels --- Comic books, strips, etc --- Graphic novels --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:309H240 --- History and criticism. --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Andere media (theater, plastische kunsten, strips, affiches, speelautomaten...) --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- Fiction --- Popular literature --- Comics --- History and criticism --- Comics. --- Historietas dibujadas --- Multiculturalismo. --- Historia y crítica. --- Comic books, strips, etc. - History and criticism --- Graphic novels - History and criticism.

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Attempts to define what comics are and explain how they work have not always been successful because they are premised upon the idea that comic strips, comic books and graphic novels are inherently and almost exclusively visual. This book challenges that premise, and asserts that comics is not just a visual medium. The book outlines the multisensory aspects of comics: the visual, audible, tactile, olfactory and gustatory elements of the medium. It rejects a synaesthetic approach (by which all the senses are engaged through visual stimuli) and instead argues for a truly multisensory model by which the direct stimulation of the reader’s physical senses can be understood. A wide range of examples demonstrates how multisensory communication systems work in both commercial and more experimental contexts. The book concludes with a case study that looks at the works of Alan Moore and indicates areas of interest that multisensory analysis can draw out, but which are overlooked by more conventional approaches.

Comic books, strips, etc. --- Graphic novels --- Senses and sensation in literature --- History and criticism --- Comic books, strips, etc --- #SBIB:309H240 --- Comic book novels --- Fiction graphic novels --- Fictive graphic novels --- Graphic albums --- Graphic fiction --- Graphic nonfiction --- Graphic novellas --- Nonfiction graphic novels --- Fiction --- Popular literature --- Andere media (theater, plastische kunsten, strips, affiches, speelautomaten...) --- Analyse sensorielle. --- Graphic novels. --- Romans graphiques --- Sens et sensations dans la littérature. --- Senses and sensation in literature. --- Sensory evaluation. --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique. --- Comic books, strips, etc. - History and criticism --- Graphic novels - History and criticism