Bending Steel : Modernity and the American Superhero
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1628462213
ISBN-13
9781628462210
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Imprint
University Press of Mississippi
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 30th, 2015
Print length
288 Pages
Weight
574 grams
Dimensions
16.20 x 23.70 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
Comic book & cartoon artPopular culture
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Examines the historical origins and cultural significance of Superman and his fellow American crusaders. Cultural historian Aldo J. Regalado asserts that the superhero seems a direct response to modernity, often fighting the interrelated processes of industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and capitalism that transformed the United States from the early nineteenth century to the present.
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