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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781932265187
ISBN: 193226518X
Label: MonkeyBrain Books
Manufacturer: MonkeyBrain Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 290
Publication Date: August 25, 2006
Publisher: MonkeyBrain Books
Studio: MonkeyBrain Books
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An entertaining and exhaustive history, tracing the superhero's roots in mythology, science fiction, and pulps, which follows the genre's development to its current renaissance in film, literature, and graphic novels.
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This book is wonderful for reference. It got used in my M.A. thesis quite often. If you are looking for connections between comics, literary theory, and other academic ideas then this is the book you want.
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Peter Coogan's look at the history of the superhero genre makes for an entertaining, educational read. It's not meant to be a comprehensive encyclopedia about every detail of superhero development. Instead, it tells an overall story about the development of superheroes, contemplating key issues and providing useful information. Coogan addresses important influences like Wertham's crusade without rehashing them the same way we've seen time and time again. Coogan does an outstanding job of providing ... Read More
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What Scott McCloud does for Sequential Art (And art in general!) in UNDERSTANDING COMICS, Doc Coogan does the same for the whole concept and genre of the Superhero.
This book will take you deep, deep and deeper still, into what many people think are simple, one-dimensional creations.
This is one of those books, you can pick up, start reading on any page, then look up at the clock and notice an hour has gone by, but you were to involved to notice.
Fascinatin' Stuff!
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Dr. Peter Coogan, in his new study Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre, makes the very important case that the American superhero comic book is an artistic genre with its own guidelines, set archetypes and genre specific storytelling. This thesis lays down some groundbreaking guidelines for viewing one of popular culture's most "trivial" academic pursuits. This sets the stage for new thinking about comics. One of Dr. Coogan's important points is that even when there is a radical change in the ... Read More
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In Superhero: The Secret Origin of A Genre, Peter Coogan skillfully traces the evolution of a distinct and often underrated literary genre. Coogan provides a diagnostic clarification of the conventions of the genre and is sure to become a landmark study in an emerging field.
Superhero is an adaptation of Coogan's doctoral dissertation which demonstartates the development of the superhero genre from heroic myths and frontier literature, through Victorian science fiction, culminating in the birth ... Read More
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