Joseph Crawford

Killer Bodies

The Rise and Fall of "Bad Girl" Comics. 17 color and 6 B-W images. Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 210 Seiten
ISBN 1978841965
EAN 9781978841963
Veröffentlicht 9. Dezember 2025
Verlag/Hersteller MNG University Presses
34,00 inkl. MwSt.
vorbestellbar (Versand mit Deutscher Post/DHL)
Teilen
Beschreibung

Killer Bodies offers a history of the single most critically-derided subgenre in American superhero comics: the ‘bad girl’ comics of the 1990s, which chronicled the blood-soaked adventures of barely-dressed and improbably-proportioned action heroines for an audience of adolescent boys. While not in any way attempting to rehabilitate the genre, which for the most part amply deserved its reputation as sexist and borderline pornographic, this book situates it within its original cultural context, as the result of a matrix of influences that included third-wave feminism, neopaganism, ‘girl power’, the rise of the internet, the growing popularity of manga, supermodel beauty ideals, and the mainstreaming of pornography. It explores why and how the figure of the anti-heroic, physically aggressive, sexually objectified heroine arose within American comics culture, and the commercial and ideological factors that led to the genre’s rapid rise and equally rapid decline amidst the crisis-racked comics industry of the mid-1990s.

Portrait

JOSEPH CRAWFORD is an associate professor of English at the University of Exeter, in the UK. He is the author of five books, including The Twilight of the Gothic and Inspiration and Insanity in British Poetry.
 

Das könnte Sie auch interessieren

Sebastian Fitzek
Der Nachbar
Gebund. Ausgabe
vorbestellbar
25,00
Phia Quantius
Aura
Taschenbuch
vorbestellbar
20,00
vorbestellbar
16,99
Walter Moers
Qwert
Gebund. Ausgabe
vorbestellbar
42,00
Wallis Kinney
A Dark and Secret Magic
Gebund. Ausgabe
vorbestellbar
24,00
Susanne Siegert
Gedenken neu denken
Taschenbuch
vorbestellbar
18,00
Birgit Ohmsieder
The Vanishing Half
Taschenbuch
vorbestellbar
10,99
"König Boris" Lauterbach
FC St. Pauli
Gebund. Ausgabe
vorbestellbar
16,99
vorbestellbar
3,50
vorbestellbar
5,95