An edition of Heroes of film, comics and American culture
(2009)
Heroes of film, comics and American culture
essays on real and fictional defenders of home
by Lisa M. Detora
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"These essays consider the way that heroes and the domestic spaces they defend have been represented in 20th and early 21st century popular forms. Topics covered include Tales of Suspense, Captain America, gender and popular culture during World War II, Iron Man and the military-industrial complex, Batman, Xena: Warrior Princess, The Ring, Ridley Scott, and many others"--Provided by publisher.
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Motion pictures, Popular culture, History and criticism, American literature, Heroes in literature, Comic books, strips, Heroes in motion pictures, Heroes in art, History, Popular culture, united states, Motion pictures, united states, Motion pictures, history, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Comic books, strips, etc., history and criticism, Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century, Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century, American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism, Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticismPlaces
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Heroes of film, comics and American culture: essays on real and fictional defenders of home
2009, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, McFarland & Co., Publishers
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Table of Contents
Introduction: real Americans, heroes, and home fronts / Lisa DeTora
"A labyrinth without a clew": husbands, houses and harpies in Richard Matheson's The shrinking man and Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves / Dara Downey
Beautiful results: Whitman's Democratic vision and the evolution of America in Michael Cunningham's Specimen days / Andrew Schopp
Defending the heartland: technology and the future in The phantom empire (1935) / Cynthia J. Miller
Temporary heroes "In the service of Mars": women in uniform, factories, and the kitchen during World War II / Heather Molyneaux
Fighting for home: masculinity and the constitution of the domestic in tales of suspense and Captain America / Jason Dittmer
"Axe the Axis" and "Bombers aloft": militaristic play during the second World War / Lisa L. Ossian
To protect and to threaten: Gary Cooper and the gender politics of High noon (1952) / Steven T. Sheehan
Hero of the military-industrial complex: reading Iron man through Burke's dramatism / Ronald C. Thomas, Jr.
Professional killers at home: domesticity and the deregulated subject / Lachlan MacDowall
Teacher as hero in late Cold War film and culture / Leah Sadykov
Batman as terrorist, technocrat, and feudal lord / Marc Edward DiPaolo
Knocked up, not knocked out: Xena: warrior princess, pregnant action hero / Mary Jo Lodge
The naked hero and model man: costumed identity in comic book narratives / David Coughlan
Mommy, baby, ghost: the technological chain letter and the nuclear family in The ring (2002) / Chuck Robinson
Waking up the mythic American neo / Jayson Baker
Ridley Scott's epics and the gender of violence / Danielle Glassmeyer
"Real Americans": inclusion, difference, and tolerance in post 9/11 nationalist discourse / Randy Cota
Afterword / Malia K. Du Mont.
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