Edited by Robert Moses Peaslee and Robert G. Weiner
Foreword by Tom DeFalco; Afterword by Gary Jackson
Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-4627-8
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-7864-9167-4
notes, bibliographies, index
271pp. softcover (7 x 10) 2012
This volume collects a wide-ranging sample of fresh analyses of Spider-Man. It traverses boundaries of medium, genre, epistemology and discipline in essays both insightful and passionate that move forward the study of one of the world’s most beloved characters. The editors have crafted the book for fans, creators and academics alike. Foreword by Tom DeFalco, with poetry and an afterword by Gary Jackson (winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize).
Acknowledgments v
Foreword: My Pal Pete
TOM DEFALCO 1
Elegy for Gwen Stacy
GARY JACKSON 3
Introduction
ROBERT G. WEINER and ROBERT MOSES PEASLEE 4
I. Historical, Cultural and Pedagogical Angles
Donald Glover for Spider-Man
PHILLIP LAMARR CUNNINGHAM 22
Have Great Power, Greatly Irresponsible: Intergenerational Conflict in 1960s Amazing Spider-Man
PETER LEE 29
"Continually in the Making": Spider-Man’s New York
MARTIN FLANAGAN 40
Hegemonic Implications of Science in Popular Media: Science Narratives and Representations of Physics in the Spider-Man Film Trilogy
LISA HOLDERMAN 53
Teaching Peter Parker’s Ghosts of Milton: Anxiety of Influence, the Trace, and Platonic Knowing in Ultimate Spider-Man Volume 1
JAMES BUCKY CARTER 63
II. Considering Specific Graphic Novels
Weaving Webs and True Lies: Revisiting Kraven’s Last Hunt Through the Lens of Brooklyn Dreams
DAVID WALTON 70
The Hermeneutics of Spider-Man: What Is Peter Parker Doing in Elizabethan England?
CHRISTINA C. ANGEL 74
Strategies of Narration in Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale’s Spider-Man: Blue
DEREK PARKER ROYAL 81
III. The J. Jonah Jameson Problem
Spider-Man: MENACE!!! Stan Lee, Censorship and the 100-Issue Revolution
AARON DRUCKER 90
J. Jonah Jameson--Hero or Villain? Spider-Man’s Nemesis Hard to Pigeonhole
ANDREW A. SMITH 101
Spider-Management: A Critical Examination of the Business World of Spider-Man
MATTHEW MCGOWAN and JEREMY SHORT 113
IV. Spider-Man and Other Sequential Art Characters
Anti-Heroes: Spider-Man and the Punisher
CORD A. SCOTT 120
The Sinister Six: Anti-Villains in an Anti-Heroic Narrative
RICK HUDSON 128
Spider-Man and Batman, Disordered Minds: Friendship Through Difference
PHILLIP BEVIN 134
V. Trauma Textual and Extra-Textual
The Loss of the Father: Trauma Theory and the Birth of Spider-Man
FORREST C. HELVIE 146
Artificial Mourning: The Spider-Man Trilogy and September 11th
TAMA LEAVER 154
VI. Issues of Gender in the Spider-verse
Three Stories, Three Movies and the Romances of Mary Jane and Spider-Man
ROBERT G. WEINER 166
Women’s Pleasures Watching Spider-Man’s Journeys
EMILY D. EDWARDS 177
The Incorrigible Aunt May
ORA C. MCWILLIAMS 187
Spidey Meets Freud: Central Psychoanalytic Motifs in Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2
ROBERT MOSES PEASLEE 195
VII. Under-Examined Spider-Texts
Reinterpreting Myths in Spider-Man: The Animated Series
DAVID RAY CARTER 210
Finding the Milieu of the Spider-Man Music LPs
MARK MCDERMOTT 222
Games Are Not Convergence: Spider-Man 3, Game Design and the Lost Promise of Digital Production and Convergence
CASEY O’DONNELL 234
Afterword
GARY JACKSON 249
About the Contributors 251
Index 255
About the Author
Robert Moses Peaslee is an assistant professor in the College of Mass Communications at Texas Tech University. He has written for Visual Communication Quarterly, Tourist Studies, and NMEDIAC: Journal of New Media & Culture, and edited volumes related to visual culture. He lives in Lubbock, Texas. Robert G. Weiner is associate humanities librarian at Texas Tech University. His works have been published in the Journal of Popular Culture, Public Library Quarterly, Journal of American Culture, International Journal of Comic Art and Popular Music and Society. He lives in Lubbock, Texas.
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