Heroes of the past, readers of the present, stories of the future : continuity, cultural memory, and historical revisionism in superhero comics

This dissertation is a study of cultural memory, exploring how superhero comic books, and their readers and creators, look back on and make sense of the past, as well as how they use that past in the creation of community and stories today. It is my contention that the superhero comics that exist a...

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Main Author: Friedenthal, Andrew J.
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/24947