Working-class comic book heroes : class conflict and populist politics in comics

Working-class comic book heroes : class conflict and populist politics in comics / edited by Marc DiPaolo.

In comic books, superhero stories often depict working-class characters who struggle to make ends meet, lead fulfilling lives, and remain faithful to themselves and their own personal code of ethics. Working-Class Comic Book Heroes: Class Conflict and Populist Politics in Comics examines working-cla...

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Other Authors: Di Paolo, Marc (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]
Subjects:
Comic books, strips, etc. > History and criticism.
Working class in literature.
Social conflict in literature.
Populism in literature.
Superheroes in literature.
Working class authors.
The Dr. Mark D. Nevins '86 Collection for the Study of Comics and Graphic Novels
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Cultivating empathy: the subversive potential of populist comic books / Marc DiPaolo
  • Part I. Representations of class and populism in horror and science fiction comics
  • Past lives: memory and the meaning of work in The walking dead / Michele Fazio
  • You can be whatever the hell you want: heroism and the female working class in Preacher / Kelly Kanayama
  • Alan Moore and anarchist praxis in form: bibliography, remediation, and aesthetic form in V for vendetta and Black dossier / James Gifford and Orion Ussner Kidder
  • Truth, justice, and the socialist way?: the politics of Grant Morrison's Superman / Phil Bevin
  • Part II. Marvel comics, Netflix, and the working-class superhero
  • From the streets to the swamp: Luke Cage, Man-Thing, and the 1970s class issues of Marvel comics / Blair Davis
  • "It's just us here": Daredevil and the trauma of big power / Kevin Michael Scott
  • Jack Kirby: the not-so-secret identity of the Thing / Andrew Alan Smith
  • Marvel's Shamrock: haunted heroine, working woman, guardian of the galaxy / Christina M. Knopf
  • The working-class PI (aka Jessica Jones): Alias as a narrative of quiet desperation / Terrence R. Wandtke.

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