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War, Politics and Superheroes
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 45.00Superhero adventure comics have a long history of commenting upon American public opinion and government policy, and the surge in the popularity of comics since the events of September 11, 2001, ensures their continued relevance. This critical text examines the seventy-year history of comic book superheroes on film and in comic books and their reflections... more...
Highway of Heroes
Dundurn 2011; US$ 24.99After the repatriation of the first four Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan, Canadians have lined the overpasses of the Highway of Heroes to show their support, grief, and pride in our fallen champions. more...
Beautiful Fighting Girl
University of Minnesota Press 2011; US$ 60.00From Cutie Honey and Sailor Moon to Nausica? of the Valley of the Wind, the worlds of Japanese anime and manga teem with prepubescent girls toting deadly weapons. Sometimes overtly sexual, always intensely cute, the beautiful fighting girl has been both hailed as a feminist icon and condemned as a symptom of the objectification of young women in Japanese... more...
The Exploitations of Medieval Romance
Boydell & Brewer 2010; US$ 99.00Important and wide-ranging studies of the ideological exploitations performed by and upon the medieval romance. more...
Blackbeard
Running Press 2011; US$ 14.95Climb aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge and sail with the most notorious pirate of all time, Blackbeard! No one has struck terror into the hearts of men more than Edward Teach, whose big black beard gave him his name. From merchant ships to naval vessels, no target was safe from Blackbeard's bloodthirsty desire to take prizes along the Atlantic coast... more...
Superman versus the Ku Klux Klan
National Geographic Society 2012; US$ 16.95This book tells a group of intertwining stories that culminate in the historic 1947 collision of the Superman Radio Show and the Ku Klux Klan. It is the story of the two Cleveland teenagers who invented Superman as a defender of the little guy and the New York wheeler-dealers who made him a major media force. It is the story Ku Klux Klan's development... more...
Die Heldenreise im Hause Pixar: Eine Analyse der Filme "Findet Nemo" und "Ratatouille"
Diplomica Verlag 2011; US$ 38.56Hauptbeschreibung Was haben "Findet Nemo" und "Ratatouille" mit der griechischen Mythologie gemeinsam? Die Trickfilmhelden gehen auf dieselbe Reise wie ihre antiken Vorbilder. Die so genannte Heldenreise ist ein altes Erzählmodell, das auch heute noch von vielen bekannten Regisseuren wie George Lucas verwendet wird, weil sie von dessen Wirkung überzeugt... more...
Medieval Literature 1300-1500
Edinburgh University Press 2011; US$ 60.00Offers close readings of Middle English texts placed within the culture with which they interact. more...
Alan Moore
University Press of Mississippi 2011; US$ 65.00British comics writer Alan Moore (b. 1953) has a reputation for equal parts brilliance and eccentricity. Living hermit-like in the same Midlands town for his entire life, he supposedly refuses contact with the outside world while creating his strange, dense comics, fiction, and performance art. While Moore did declare himself a wizard on his fortieth... more...









