{"product_id":"death-disability-and-the-superhero-the-silver-age-and-beyond-paperback","title":"Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJose Alaniz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Thing. Daredevil. Captain Marvel. The Human Fly. Drawing on DC and Marvel comics from the 1950s to the 1990s and marshaling insights from three burgeoning fields of inquiry in the humanities--disability studies, death and dying studies, and comics studies--José Alaniz seeks to redefine the contemporary understanding of the superhero. Beginning in the Silver Age, the genre increasingly challenged and complicated its hypermasculine, quasi-eugenicist biases through such disabled figures as Ben Grimm\/The Thing, Matt Murdock\/Daredevil, and the Doom Patrol. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Alaniz traces how the superhero became increasingly vulnerable, ill, and mortal in this era. He then proceeds to a reinterpretation of characters and series--some familiar (Superman), some obscure (She-Thing). These genre changes reflected a wider awareness of related body issues in the postwar U.S. as represented by hospice, death with dignity, and disability rights movements. The persistent highlighting of the body's \"imperfection\" comes to forge a predominant aspect of the superheroic self. Such moves, originally part of the Silver Age strategy to stimulate sympathy, enhance psychological depth, and raise the dramatic stakes, developed further in such later series as \u003ci\u003eThe Human Fly, Strikeforce: Morituri\u003c\/i\u003e, and the landmark graphic novel \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Captain Marvel\u003c\/i\u003e, all examined in this volume. Death and disability, presumed routinely absent or denied in the superhero genre, emerge to form a core theme and defining function of the Silver Age and beyond.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJosé Alaniz\u003c\/b\u003e is professor in the Department of Slavic Languages \u0026amp; Literatures and the Department of Cinema \u0026amp; Media Studies at the University of Washington-Seattle. He is author of \u003ci\u003eResurrection: Comics in Post-Soviet Russia\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKomiks: Comic Art in Russia\u003c\/i\u003e, the latter published by University Press of Mississippi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 376\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.84 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 10, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47431610859698,"sku":"9781496804532","price":63.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/erpszRzbkl9781496804532.webp?v=1783240313","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/death-disability-and-the-superhero-the-silver-age-and-beyond-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}