Heroines of Comic Books and Literature: Portrayals in Popular Culture - Softcover

Maja Bajac-Carter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 144227560X ISBN 13: 9781442275607

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Despite the growing importance of heroines across literary culture-and sales figures that demonstrate both young adult and adult females are reading about heroines in droves, particularly in graphic novels, comic books, and YA literature-few scholarly collections have examined the complex relationships between the representations of heroines and the changing societal roles for both women and men.

In Heroines of Comic Books and Literature: Portrayals in Popular Culture, editors Maja Bajac-Carter, Norma Jones, and Bob Batchelor have selected essays by award-winning contributors that offer a variety of perspectives on the representations of heroines in today's society. Focused on printed media, this collection looks at heroic women depicted in literature, graphic novels, manga, and comic books. Addressing heroines from such sources as the Marvel and DC comic universes, manga, and the Twilight novels, contributors go beyond the account of women as mothers, wives, warriors, goddesses, and damsels in distress.

These engaging and important essays situate heroines within culture, revealing them as tough and self-sufficient females who often break the bounds of gender expectations in places readers may not expect. Analyzing how women are and have been represented in print, this companion volume to Heroines of Film and Television will appeal to scholars of literature, rhetoric, and media as well as to broader audiences that are interested in portrayals of women in popular culture.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Maja Bajac-Carter is a doctoral candidate in Communication Studies at Kent State University. Her research focuses on gender, identity, and media studies. She is a contributor to We Are What We Sell: How Advertising Shapes American Life . . . and Always Has (2014).

Norma Jones has a PhD in communication and information from Kent State University. She is an editor of Rowman & Littlefield's Sports Icons and Issues in Popular Culture book series and is coeditor of Aging Heroes: Growing Old in Popular Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).

Bob Batchelor is a cultural historian and noted expert on contemporary American culture, history, and biography. His books include Stan Lee: A Life; Stan Lee: The Man Behind Marvel, Young Reader's Edition; and Roadhouse Blues: Morrison, the Doors, and the Death Days of the Sixties. He is a three-time winner of the IPA Book Award. Batchelor's work has been featured by the New York Times, Cincinnati Enquirer, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, PopMatters, The Conversation, and Time. Batchelor is creator/host of the podcast John Updike: American Writer, American Life and has appeared as an on-air commentator for The National Geographic Channel, PBS NewsHour, BBC, PBS, and NPR. Batchelor is an assistant professor at Coastal Carolina University and resides in Conway, SC.

Nathan Miczo is professor of communication at Western Illinois University.

Joseph J. Darowski, PhD, is an assistant professor of English at Brigham Young University. He is the editor of The Ages of Superheroes essay series, the author of X-Men and the Mutant Metaphor: Race and Gender in the Comics, and coauthor of Frasier: A Cultural History and Cheers: A Cultural History.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 144227560X
• ISBN 13: 9781442275607
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274
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