Death, Disability, and the Superhero : The Silver Age and Beyond (Paperback)

from rivkat

Free review copy. The basic argument is that Silver Age superheroes engaged with American masculine relations to death and disability, along with everything else. Superpowers sprung from and erased disability, often literalizing the "supercrip" stereotype that let society individualize disability...

from jpporter

This is an entertaining book, although is is more on the order of pop psychology than substantive psychological insight. The thesis presented by Mr. Alaniz is that developments in the nature of the superheros that are in vogue at any given point in history are a reflection on the nature of oursel...

from zzshupinga

ARC provided by NetGalley Ever since the beginning of superhero culture we've seen them as invincible and indestructible. Until...we started to see "disabled" figures like The Thing, Daredevil, and others who proved they were not infallible or had something that prevented them from being "normal....

from pomo58

Jose Alaniz has written an extremely ambitious work in Death, Disability, and the Superhero. The first part of the book focuses primarily on disability and the superhero while, from chapter seven on death and the superhero takes center stage. As with any work that encompasses such a broad range o...

from pomo58

Jose Alaniz has written an extremely ambitious work in Death, Disability, and the Superhero. The first part of the book focuses primarily on disability and the superhero while, from chapter seven on death and the superhero takes center stage. As with any work that encompasses such a broad range o...