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Killer Bodies

The Rise and Fall of "Bad Girl" Comics

Af: Joseph Crawford
Kategori: Fiction
Kategori nr.: 9010
Varenr.: 3422644
| Stregkode: 9781978841963
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Killer Bodies offers a history of the single most critically-derided subgenre in American superhero comics: the ‘bad girl’ comics of the 1990s, which chronicled the blood-soaked adventures of barely-dressed and improbably-proportioned action heroines for an audience of adolescent boys. While not in any way attempting to rehabilitate the genre, which for the most part amply deserved its reputation as sexist and borderline pornographic, this book situates it within its original cultural context, as the result of a matrix of influences that included third-wave feminism, neopaganism, ‘girl power’, the rise of the internet, the growing popularity of manga, supermodel beauty ideals, and the mainstreaming of pornography. It explores why and how the figure of the anti-heroic, physically aggressive, sexually objectified heroine arose within American comics culture, and the commercial and ideological factors that led to the genre’s rapid rise and equally rapid decline amidst the crisis-racked comics industry of the mid-1990s. Killer Bodies offers a history of the single most critically-derided subgenre in American superhero comics: the ‘bad girl’ comics of the 1990s, which chronicled the blood-soaked adventures of barely-dressed and improbably-proportioned action heroines for an audience of adolescent boys. While not in any way attempting to rehabilitate the genre, which for the most part amply deserved its reputation as sexist and borderline pornographic, this book situates it within its original cultural context, as the result of a matrix of influences that included third-wave feminism, neopaganism, ‘girl power’, the rise of the internet, the growing popularity of manga, supermodel beauty ideals, and the mainstreaming of pornography. It explores why and how the figure of the anti-heroic, physically aggressive, sexually objectified heroine arose within American comics culture, and the commercial and ideological factors that led to the genre’s rapid rise and equally rapid decline amidst the crisis-racked comics industry of the mid-1990s.

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  • EAN
    9781978841963
  • Vægt
    0 g
  • Disponent
    Direkte titel
  • Forfatter
    Joseph Crawford
  • Forlag
    Rutgers University Press
  • ISBN
    9781978841963
  • Sprog
    Engelsk
  • Sideantal
    210
  • Udgivelsesdato
  • Format
    PAPERBACK
  • Themakode
    DSK
  • Kategori
    Fiction
  • Kategori nr
    9010
  • Lev. varenr.
    1501
  • Højde/Dybde (mm)
    454 mm
  • Bredde (mm)
    156 mm
  • Længde (mm)
    235 mm