Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre"An exhaustive and entertaining study of the superhero genre, Superhero: the Secret Origin of a Genre traces the roots of the superhero in mythology, science fiction, and the pulps, and follows the superhero's development to its current renaissance in film, literature, and graphic novels."--BOOK JACKET. |
Contents
The Superhero Renaissance | 1 |
The Superhero Genre | 24 |
The Definition of the Superhero | 30 |
Copyright | |
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