Wonder Woman: 80 Years Later
Editat de Vera J. Camden, Valentino L. Zulloen Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 sep 2023
In honor of the 75th anniversary of the comic book super heroine Wonder Woman in 2016, Kent State University and the Cleveland Public Library partnered to celebrate the intersections of public literacy, comics, and feminism in a jointly sponsored symposium. Centering on the figure of Wonder Woman, the special issue of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics that this volume is based on collected the presentations and interviews from the event. This book will fortuitously appear in honor of Wonder Woman’s 80th anniversary and pays respect to "herstory" while recognizing her perpetual relevance to our present day, and beyond.
Like its progenitor, it reflects the historical trends that have changed the world of comics, American popular culture, and feminism so relevant to our current moment. It also highlights an interview with Mariko Tamaki, the current writer of Wonder Woman comics, as well as new editorial reflections in a Foreword and an Afterword.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780367711740
ISBN-10: 0367711745
Pagini: 164
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0367711745
Pagini: 164
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Postgraduate and UndergraduateCuprins
Foreword Introduction – Wonder Woman and the public humanities: a reflection on the 2016 Wonder Woman Symposium Part I: On Wonder Woman 1. Wonder Woman, feminist Icon? Queer icon? No, love icon 2. Wonder Woman 1987– 1990: the Goddess, the Iron Maiden and the sacralisation of consumerism 3. By Sappho’s Stylus! Reading Wonder Woman with Wertham 4. Wonder Woman: superheroine, not superhero Part II: Wonder Woman’s Contemporaries 5. Babes in arms 6. Empire of a wicked woman: Catwoman, royalty, and the making of a comics icon Part III: Interviews 7. Truth, justice, and the Amazonian way: an interview with Greg Rucka 8. Plain Dealing Women: Lois Lane and the Origin of the Comic Book Heroine– A Conversation with Laura Siegel Larson 9. Wonder Woman symposium audience Q & A with Christie Marston Afterword: tales of wonder in dark times
Notă biografică
Vera J. Camden is Professor of English at Kent State University, USA, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University, USA, and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center, USA. She is Editor most recently of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis. Co-editor of American Imago and American editor of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, she specializes in seventeenth-century British literature, psychoanalysis, and comics.
Valentino L. Zullo holds a PhD in English from Kent State University, USA. He is the Ohio Center for the Book Scholar-in-Residence at Cleveland Public Library where he co-leads the Get Graphic program and American editor of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. He is also licensed social worker practicing as a maternal depression therapist at OhioGuidestone and a candidate for psychoanalytic training at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center.
Valentino L. Zullo holds a PhD in English from Kent State University, USA. He is the Ohio Center for the Book Scholar-in-Residence at Cleveland Public Library where he co-leads the Get Graphic program and American editor of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. He is also licensed social worker practicing as a maternal depression therapist at OhioGuidestone and a candidate for psychoanalytic training at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center.
Descriere
Through a celebration and critique of the comics character of Wonder Woman, this collection takes up the historical trends that have changed the world of comics, American popular culture, and feminism.