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  Title

  Comic books and American cultural history : an anthology

  Author

  Pustz, Matthew, 1968-  

  Publisher:

  Continuum International Pub. Group,

  Pub date:

  c2012.

  Pages:

  xiv, 275 p. :

  ISBN:

  9781441172624

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    LB1044.9 .C59 C645 2012	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  9781441172624 (pb)

  ISBN:

  1441172629 (pb)

  ISBN:

  9781441163196 (hb)

  ISBN:

  1441163190 (hb)

  Title:

  Comic books and American cultural history : an anthology / [edited by] Matthew Pustz.

  Publication info:

  London ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, c2012.

  Physical description:

  xiv, 275 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

  Contents:

  Introduction : Comic books as history teachers / Matthew Pustz -- Part 1: Doing cultural history through comic books. How Wonder Woman helped my students "join the conversation" : comic books as teaching tools in a history methodology course / Jessamyn Neuhaus ; Comics as primary sources : the case of Journey into Mohawk country / Bridget M. Marshall ; Transcending the frontier myth : dime novel narration and (Jesse) Custer's last stand in Preacher / William Grady ; "Duel. I'll give you a DUEL" : intimacy and history in Megan Kelso's Alexander Hamilton trilogy / Alison Mandaville -- Part 2: Comic books as cultural artifacts. American golem : reading America through super-new dealers and the "melting pot" / Martin Lund ; "Dreams may end, but love never does" : marriage and materialism in American romance comics, 1947-1954 / Jeanne Emerson Gardner ; Parody and propaganda : fighting American and the battle against crime and Communism in the 1950s / John Donovan ; Grasping for identity : the hands of Shang-Chi master of kung fu / Peter Lee ; "Paralysis and stagnation and drift" : America's malaise as demonstrated in comic books of the 1970s / Matthew Pustz ; The shopping malls of empire : cultural fragmentation, the new media, and consumerism in Howard Chaykin's American Flagg! / Matthew J. Costello -- Part 3: Comic books and historical identity. Transformers and monkey kings : Gene Yang's American born Chinese and the quest for identity / Todd S. Munson ; Agent of change : the evolution and enculturation of Nick Fury / Philip G. Payne and Paul J. Spaeth ; The U.S. HIV/AIDS crisis and the negotiation of queer identity in superhero comics, or, Is Northstar still a fairy? / Ben Bolling -- Part 4: Comic books and contemporary history. The militarism of American superheroes after 9/11 / A. David Lewis ; September 11, 2001 : witnessing history, demythifying the story in American widow / Yves Davo ; "The great machine doesn't wear a cape!" : American cultural anxiety and the post-9/11 superhero / Jeff Geers.

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  Subject term:

  Comic books, strips, etc., in education.

  Subject term:

  History--Study and teaching.

  Subject term:

  Popular culture--Study and teaching--United States.

  Subject term:

  Comic books, strips, etc.--Study and teaching.

  Subject term:

  Comic books, strips, etc.--History and criticism.

  Geographic term:

  United States--Civilization--Study and teaching.

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  Pustz, Matthew, 1968-

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