Comic Book Movies

by Blair Davis

Book Overview

Comic Book Movies explores how this genre serves as a source for modern-day myths, sometimes even incorporating ancient mythic figures like Thor and Wonder Woman's Amazons, while engaging with the questions that haunt a post-9/11 world: How do we define heroism and morality today? How far are we willing to go when fighting terror? How can we resist a dystopian state?

Film scholar Blair Davis also considers how the genre's visual style...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813588774
• ISBN13: 9780813588773
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.5" x 7.2"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher