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Comic Books
While often dismissed as children's amusements, many comic books reflect serious social concerns of their day. Perhaps the most enduring of comics, though, also reveal people's deep-seeded need to believe in superheroes.
174 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2005
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March 19, 2012
This book provides good overview of the development throughout the 20th Century of comics as a pop culture medium. The main portion of the book consists as a series of essays on various aspects of comics (“Combining Words and Pictures to Create Legitimate Art”, “Conventions of the Superhero Narrative”, Comics during the following time periods: WWII, Cold War, Counterculture, Women’s Rights Struggles, Black Power, Manga Invasion of 1980s until today). Well worth examining.
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