Edited by Lisa M. DeTora
ISBN 978-0-7864-3827-3
37 photos, bibliography, index
347pp. softcover 2009
Price: $39.95
Description
These essays consider the way that heroes and the domestic spaces they defend have been represented in 20th and early 21st century popular forms, especially film, comic books and material culture. The authors work in various academic disciplines such as English, film studies, history and human geography, thus bringing a rich variety of theoretical vantage points to the reader in a single collection.
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments v
Introduction: Real Americans, Heroes, and Home Fronts
LISA DETORA 1
1. “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 17
2. Beautiful Results: Whitman’s Democratic Vision and the Evolution of America in Michael Cunningham’s Specimen Days
ANDREW SCHOPP 40
3. Defending the Heartland: Technology and the Future in The Phantom Empire (1935)
CYNTHIA J. MILLER 61
4. Temporary Heroes “In the Service of Mars”: Women in Uniform, Factories, and the Kitchen during World War II
HEATHER MOLYNEAUX 77
5. Fighting for Home: Masculinity and the Constitution of the Domestic in Tales of Suspense and Captain America
JASON DITTMER 96
6. “Axe the Axis” and “Bombers Aloft”: Militaristic Play During the Second World War
LISA L. OSSIAN 117
7. To Protect and to Threaten: Gary Cooper and the Gender Politics of High Noon (1952)
STEVEN T. SHEEHAN 134
8. Hero of the Military-Industrial Complex: Reading Iron Man Through Burke’s Dramatism
RONALD C. THOMAS, JR. 152
9. Professional Killers at Home: Domesticity and the Deregulated Subject
LACHLAN MACDOWALL 167
10. The Teacher as Hero: Representations in Late Cold War Film and Culture
LEAH SADYKOV 181
11. Terrorist, Technocrat, and Feudal Lord: Batman in Comic Book and Film Adaptations
MARC EDWARD DIPAOLO 194
12. Knocked Up, Not Knocked Out: Xena: Warrior Princess, Pregnant Action Hero
MARY JO LODGE 218
13. The Naked Hero and Model Man: Costumed Identity in Comic Book Narratives
DAVID COUGHLAN 234
14. Mommy, Baby, Ghost: The Technological Chain Letter and the Nuclear Family in The Ring
CHUCK ROBINSON 253
15. Waking Up the Mythic American Neo
JAYSON BAKER 268
16. Ridley Scott’s Epics: Gender of Violence
DANIELLE GLASSMEYER 281
17. “Real Americans”: Inclusion, Difference, and Tolerance in Post 9/11 Nationalist Discourse
RANDY COTA 301
Afterword
MALIA K. DU MONT 315
For Further Reading—TEEVRAT GARG 319
About the Contributors 323
Index 329
About the Author
Lisa M. DeTora is an assistant professor and assistant director in the English department at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.
Edited by Joyce Goggin and Dan Hassler-Forest
ISBN 978-0-7864-4294-2
20 photos, notes, bibliography, index
244pp. softcover 2010
Price: $35.00
Description
These 15 essays investigate comic books and graphic novels, beginning with the early development of these media. The essays also place the work in a cultural context, addressing theory and terminology, adaptations of comic books, the superhero genre, and comic books and graphic novels that deal with history and nonfiction. By addressing the topic from a wide range of perspectives, the book offers readers a nuanced and comprehensive picture of current scholarship in the subject area.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Joyce Goggin and Dan Hassler-Forest 1
Part One. Origin Stories: History and Development of the Genre
1. Of Gutters and Guttersnipes: Hogarth’s Legacy
Joyce Goggin 5
2. Ridiculous Rebellion: George L. Carlson and the Recovery of Jingle Jangle Comics
Daniel F. Yezbick 25
3. Suspended in Mid-Month: Serialized Storytelling in Comics
Daniel Wüllner 42
Part Two. What We Talk About When We Talk About Comics: Theory and Terminology
4 Balloonics: The Visuals of Balloons in Comics
Charles Forceville, Tony Veale, and Kurt Feyaerts 56
5. Remediation and the Sense of Time in Graphic Narratives
Kai Mikkonen 74
6. Brick by Brick: Chris Ware’s Architecture of the Page
Angela Szczepaniak 87
Part Three. Out of the Gutter: Comics and Adaptations
7. It Was the Best of Two Worlds, It Was the Worst of Two Worlds: The Adaptation of Novels in Comics and Graphic Novels
Dirk Vanderbeke 104
8. The 300 Controversy: A Case Study in the Politics of Adaptation
Dan Hassler-Forest 119
Part Four. Men in Tights: The Superhero Paradigm
9. The Last Action Hero’s Swan Song: Graphic Novelty or Never-Ending Story?
Andreas Rauscher 130
10. Extraordinary People: The Superhero Genre and Celebrity Culture in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Jonathan E. Goldman 142
11. Warren Ellis’s Planetary: The Archaeology of Superheroes
Karin Kukkonen 154
Part Five. Drawing History: Nonfiction in Comics
12. Reconsidering Comics Journalism: Information and Experience in Joe Sacco’s Palestine
Benjamin Woo 166
13. Comics, Trauma and Cultural Memory(ies) of 9/11
Christophe Dony and Caroline van Linthout 178
14. “Be vewy, vewy quiet. We’re hunting wippers”: A Barthesian Analysis of the Construction of Fact and Fiction in Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s From Hell
Julia Round 188
15. Graphic Black Nationalism: Visualizing Political Narratives in the Graphic Novel
James Braxton Peterson 202
About the Contributors 223
Works Cited 227
Index 237
About the Author
Joyce Goggin is an associate professor of literature, film and new media at the University of Amsterdam and Head of Studies at Amsterdam University College. Her primary research is on gambling and its representation in various media, though she has published on topics including film adaptation and Jane Austen, the tarot in literature, film serialization, The Gilmore Girls and addiction, and disaster capitalism.
Dan Hassler-Forest teaches media studies and English literature at the University of Amsterdam, where he is currently finishing his dissertation on superheroes in post-9/11 popular culture.
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