Overview
Why are so many of the superhero myths tied up with loss, often violent, of parents or parental figures? What is the significance of the dual identity? What makes some superhuman figures good and others evil? Why are so many of the prime superheroes white and male? How has the superhero evolved over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries? And how might the myths be changing? Why is it that the key superhero archetypes--Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, the X-Men--touch primal needs and experiences in everyone? Why has the superhero moved beyond the pages of comics into other media? All these topics, and more, are covered in this lively and original exploration of the reasons why the superhero--in comic books, films, and TV--is such a potent myth for our times and culture.
Full Product Details
Author: Danny Fingeroth ,
Danny Fingeroth
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
Edition: Library Edition
ISBN: 9798200964031
Publication Date: 27 September 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
[Superman on the Couch], like the escapist but enduring media it chronicles, proves an illuminating read. -- Publishers Weekly Fingeroth draws on his decades of working at Marvel Comics (including work as the editorial director of the Spider-Man comics family) to write this personal, engaging, and earnest work...The result is an easygoing exploration of superheroes' cultural significance. -- School Library Journal
Author Information
DANNY FINGEROTH was the editorial director of Marvel's Spider-Man comics line and writer of many comics featuring Spider-Man, Iron Man, Superman and other iconic characters. He is the author of Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society and Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews Comics and the Creation of the Superhero and an upcoming biography of Stan Lee, co-creator of the Marvel Universe. Fingeroth is a consultant to Will Eisner Studios and Wizard World Comic Conventions, and has spoken on comics-related topics at Columbia University, the Smithsonian Institution, The New York Historical Society, the Society of Illustrators and many other venues. For more info: www.dannyfingeroth.com DANNY FINGEROTH was the editorial director of Marvel's Spider-Man comics line and writer of many comics featuring Spider-Man, Iron Man, Superman and other iconic characters. He is the author of Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society and Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews Comics and the Creation of the Superhero and an upcoming biography of Stan Lee, co-creator of the Marvel Universe. Fingeroth is a consultant to Will Eisner Studios and Wizard World Comic Conventions, and has spoken on comics-related topics at Columbia University, the Smithsonian Institution, The New York Historical Society, the Society of Illustrators and many other venues. For more info: www.dannyfingeroth.com
