Caped Crusaders 101: Composition Through Comic Books, 2d ed.
Author:   Jeffrey Kahan ,  Stanley Stewart
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
ISBN:  

9780786447749


Pages:   249
Publication Date:   22 April 2010
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Jeffrey Kahan ,  Stanley Stewart
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.336kg
ISBN:  

9780786447749


ISBN 10:   0786447745
Pages:   249
Publication Date:   22 April 2010
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments      Introduction: Why Comics Can Save Us from Illiteracy     1. Black Heroes for Hire: Serializing Social Construction in the Comics      2. Comic Books, Cold Wars, and Desert Storms      3. Spider-Man and Corporate Responsibility      4. The Comic Book Code and American F-agg      5. Dr. Strange, or, How I Learned to Love Metaphysics      6. 9/11 and the Man Without Fear      7. Comics and the Prison System      8. Killing Off the Hero      Coda: Our Heroes, Ourselves      Chapter Notes      Index     

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<b>Reviews of the first edition: </b> highly recommended, valuable --<i>SFRA Review</i>; this book needs to be on every comic book collector's book shelves...detailed...a great read, an essential comic...highly recommend[ed] --<i>Jaxma Online</i>; interesting and worthwhile --<i>The Compulsive Reader</i>; an amazing piece of analysis --<i>Curledup.com.</i>


Reviews of the first edition: highly recommended, valuable --SFRA Review; this book needs to be on every comic book collector's book shelves...detailed...a great read, an essential comic...highly recommend[ed] --Jaxma Online; interesting and worthwhile --The Compulsive Reader; an amazing piece of analysis --Curledup.com.


Author Information

Jeffrey Kahan is a professor of English at the University of La Verne in California. The late Stanley Stewart was a distinguished professor in the English Department of the University of California at Riverside.

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