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Author:   Joseph J. Darowski
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.308kg
ISBN:  

9780786497331

ISBN 10:   0786497335
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   30 November 2015
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Preface Smashing Cold War Consensus Culture: Hulk’s Journey from Monster to Hero (John Darowski and Joseph J. Darowski) Becoming Nature’s “Monster”: How the Gamma Bomb Reterritorializes the Human World (Justin Lerberg) A ­Globe-Trotting Atomic Weapon: Illustrating the Cold War Arms Race (Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and César Alfonso Marino) The American Military in The Incredible Hulk During the Vietnam War (Lori Maguire) “The Monster’s Analyst” and the “Binomial Self” (José Alaniz) She-Hulk Crash! The Evolution of Jen Walters, or How Marvel Comics Learned to Stop Worrying About Feminism and Love the Gamma Bomb (Jennifer A. ­Swartz-Levine) Jennifer Walters and the Savaging of American “Malaise” (Peter W. Lee) A Made Man: Joe Fixit, the ’80s and Consumption as Resistance (Matthew Alan Cicci) The Pantheon Era: Personal and Political Morality in Peter David’s Hulk (Jason Sacks) Metafictional Powers in the Postmodern Age: ­She-Hulk, Canon and the Nature of Superpowers (Roy T Cook) Bruce Banner on the Couch: Dubious Psychologizing in the 1980s and 1990s (Michael Smith) Live and Let Die: Jim Wilson, the Hulk and AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s (Cathy Leogrande) “You, on the other hand…”: Dual Identity and Superhero Storytelling in Dan Slott’s She-Hulk (Adam Capitanio) “I didn’t come here for a whisper”: Monsters, Violence and Heroes in World War Hulk and Post–9/11 America (Brooke Southgate) About the Contributors Index

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Goes into extensive detail about the individual characters starting from their origins and their transition and evolution through the decades...makes for fascinating reading -- Collector's Corner Collector's Corner goes into extensive detail about the individual characters starting from their origins and their transition and evolution through the decades...makes for fascinating reading --Collectors' Corner.

Goes into extensive detail about the individual characters starting from their origins and their transition and evolution through the decades...makes for fascinating reading -- Collector's Corner Collector's Corner goes into extensive detail about the individual characters starting from their origins and their transition and evolution through the decades...makes for fascinating reading --Collector's Corner.

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Joseph J. Darowski teaches English at Brigham Young University and has published on comic book superheroes such as the X-Men, Wonder Woman, and Superman as well as on television series such as Chuck and Frasier.

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