Superheroes!: Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films

by Roz Kaveney

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Modern myths, cheap trash or the objects of fetishist desire? Most people know something about Superman, Batman, Spider-Man and Wonder Woman, even if what they know is heavily filtered through film and television versions, rather than the comics in which they first appeared. Yet, even though the continuity of the DC and Marvel Comics universes rival or surpass in size almost anything else in Western culture, surprisingly little attention has been paid to comics, which we were supposed to grow out of. In "Superheroes!", acclaimed cultural commentator Roz Kaveney argues that this is a mistake, that, at their best,...Read more
  • ISBN10 1845115694
  • ISBN13 9781845115692
  • Publish Date 19 December 2007
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 4 March 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Imprint I.B. Tauris
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 288
  • Language English