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Demanding Respect: The Evolution
of the American Comic Book. By Paul Lopes.
Philadelphia,
PA: Temple University Press, 2009. 260pp.
Paperback: ISBN-10: 1592134432 // ISBN-13: 978-1592134434
Hardcover: ISBN-10: 1592134424 // ISBN-13: 978-1592134427
Library of Congress:
PN6725 .L67 2009 //
Dewey: 741.5/973 22
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How is it that comic books - the once reviled form
of lowbrow popular culture - are now the rage for Hollywood
blockbusters, the basis for bestselling video games, and the
inspiration for literary graphic novels? In Demanding Respect,
Paul Lopes immerses himself in the discourse and practices of this art
and subculture to provide a social history of the comic book over the
last 75 years.
Lopes analyzes the cultural production, reception,
and consumption of American comic books throughout history. He charts
the rise of superheroes, the proliferation of serials, and the
emergence of graphic novels. Demanding Respect
explores how comic books born in the 1930s were perceived as a 'menace'
in the 1950s, only to later become collectors' items and eventually
'hip' fiction in the 1980s through today.
Using a theoretical framework to examine the
construction of comic book culture - the artists, publishers, readers
and fans - Lopes explains how and why comic books have captured the
public's imagination and gained a fanatic cult following.
Acknowledgments ...
Introduction: The Evolution of the
American Comic Book
... [PDF from publisher]
- The Early Industrial
Age I: Pulp Logic and the Rise of the American Comic Book ...
- The Early Industrial
Age II: The Crusade Against Comic Books and the End of the Comic Book
Boom ...
- The Late Industrial
Age: The Return of the Superhero and the First Comic Book Rebellion
- From the Late
Industrial to the Heroic Age: Comic Book Fandom and the Mainstream Pulp
Rebellion ...
- The Heroic Age II:
Alternative Comics and a Rebellion from the Margins ...
- The Heroic Age III:
New Movements, Winning Respect, and the Rise of the Graphic Novel
Conclusion:
The Development of an Art Form
...
Notes ...
Index ...
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